Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

28 reviews

place6o_ffct's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Confinement

Minor: Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Medical trauma, and Xenophobia

hedyharper's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted sad medium-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? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Colonisation, Death, Racism, Confinement, Grief, Mental illness, Classism, Death of parent, Abandonment, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Chronic illness, and Child abuse

kriyon's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Ableism, and Colonisation

Moderate: Racial slurs

amytk's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Chronic illness

Minor: Toxic friendship

theneighborhoodbookwyrm's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Classism, Ableism, Cultural appropriation, Body shaming, Racial slurs, and Colonisation

ljg765's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation and Racism

Product of its time.

melodyramirez's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

4.25

The book starts with awful characters but then it is beautifully hopeful. Theres a religious motif that I didn’t hate because it felt like more of  hopeful than religious 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Racism, Death, Classism, Colonisation, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Child death

astrangewind's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

5.0

Being a classic, The Secret Garden initially repelled me. The word "classic" brings to mind inaccessible language, uninteresting plot, and tired characters. But not so here. This book is a comfort from start to finish. It's a story about healing and magic and that feeling of toiling in a garden and watching it come to life. I was in desperate need of a book that would make me cry happy tears, and I found it. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Racism, and Colonisation

wormariwood's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Ableism, and Racism

Moderate: Colonisation, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma

Minor: Physical abuse, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Cultural appropriation, and Death

Abundant racism throughout the book, and a child is presumed to be disabled and spoken of in a manner as if he's less than human because of this assumption. Also, adults in the household actively work to convince this child that he's severely sick and is going to die young, which caused him to develop some mental issues around believing he's going to die and becomes a hypochondriac. Parental death is mentioned throughout but in no great detail.

jadew2000's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Racism, Slavery, and Colonisation