Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

61 reviews

lrgluck's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Rape, Violence, and Islamophobia

mreadsbooks's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Rape, Torture, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty and Vomit

coolfijiwater's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, and War

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Genocide, and Vomit

amberinpieces's review against another edition

challenging tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood

sadhbh2525's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Vomit

bladelikesbooks's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

hammerhead69's review

adventurous dark informative reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

I was stuck between giving this book 5 stars or 1. Fantastic writing but the ending had me screaming!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Islamophobia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

carojust's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Adania Shibli shows us the darkest side of humanity, a reality we can't ignore, in painfully beautiful and stark writing. 

The first half feels blurry, sweltering, full of smells and you feel yourself fearing, unsure what this character will do. He ends up doing the worst, and you see that you're witnessing hell. 

The second half is a complete character, POV, timeline and tone shift, told through an autistic-leaning narrator who describes, in complete detail, her world as a Palestinian in recent years. With no sense of emotion, she talks about bombings that she works and sleeps through. We follow her as she retraces the events from the first half. 

Shibli artfully weaves details and symbolism from both timelines into each other. It has a heartstopping effect, when you see that things haven't changed. The ending emphasizes this. 

Please read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, War, and Injury/Injury detail

nomoba's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I feel like a lot of people missed the point with this book, especially the repetitiveness. For me, it represents how Palestinians go through the same struggles they did decades ago and how history repeats itself. It’s repetitive because history is repetitive. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Genocide, Gun violence, Rape, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Vomit

jpfortmiller's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Minor: Animal cruelty