Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

14 reviews

readingwithkaitlyn's review

challenging informative mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Kidnapping, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Murder, Blood, Stalking, Bullying, Confinement, Rape, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Racial slurs, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual content, Police brutality, Colonisation, Genocide, Abandonment, Medical content, Vomit, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Forced institutionalization

Rape is not on page, only mentioned and discussed several times on page. There are no child deaths on page, but mentions of young children who have passed.

samburkhouse's review

adventurous emotional informative medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Grief, and Colonisation

Moderate: Death and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, and Police brutality

laureliz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I loved Firekeeper’s Daughter and was excited for this novel about Perry Firekeeper’s-Birch. I wasn’t disappointed. Boulley educates readers on NAGPRA and MMIW while weaving a mysterious and thrilling tale. I couldn’t put it down and found pieces of myself in most of the characters. It was a window and a mirror read. 

*I received an ALC copy through Libro.fm’s educator program*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Racism, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Mental illness, Grief, Gaslighting, and Forced institutionalization

marywahlmeierbracciano's review

challenging tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

An Afro-Indigenous girl takes the repatriation of stolen ancestors and artifacts into her own hands in Angeline Boulley’s thrilling follow-up to Firekeeper’s Daughter.  Underestimated by those in power and infuriated by institutional red tape, Perry and her friends must decide if it’s better to take shortcuts or to play by the book—which will bring their relatives home safely?  Set in 2014, this story is tightly woven with the ongoing crises of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People and violence against Black Americans.  Read this, then take action!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Mental illness, Car accident, Grief, Pregnancy, and Confinement

Moderate: Violence, Rape, Murder, Blood, Kidnapping, Racism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, and Child death

Minor: Vomit, Dementia, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Addiction, Police brutality, and Death of parent