Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

3 reviews

orangepeaches's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is really informative in the native ways of thought and theory. I'm reading it for a native American Literature class and it really is a decolonized lens through the whole book. Everything is cyclical and the timeline is jumbled but in a way the story makes sense and shows growth, place, and time as cyclical. Most of the book I would say is also dedicated to the place, the setting, in that there is strong connections to the land and the place the story occupies. It is a story of resistance healing and love at the end of it all. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, War, Grief, and Alcoholism

Minor: Abandonment, Colonisation, Death, Racism, Medical content, Torture, and Medical trauma

laindarko2's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Blood, Colonisation, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Grief, Violence, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Animal death, War, Xenophobia, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Adult/minor relationship

dxlltopia's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Cursing, Death, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, War, Alcoholism, and Torture

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Body shaming, Cultural appropriation, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Classism, Rape, Trafficking, Racism, Physical abuse, Animal death, Sexual content, and Misogyny

Minor: Genocide, Drug abuse, Colonisation, Vomit, Dementia, Medical content, Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, and Animal death