Reviews tagging 'Violence'

جزيرة الأشجار المفقودة by Elif Shafak

100 reviews

ciaomara's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Colonisation, Death of parent, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Violence, Grief, and War

leaelsie's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcoholism, Addiction, Abortion, War, Violence, Homophobia, and Grief

sabrinalefebvre's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.5

3.5⭐️

An interesting novel told through different perspective and timelines, often jumping through them back and forth.

I thought the characters were so well developed, I loved seeing their different perspectives on the world. I have to say that I’m a little biased with Kostas, he was my favourite character.

The prose flowed beautifully and easily. Beautiful writing that sucked you in into an even more beautiful story.

However, and I feel there’s always a however, it was slow. It took so long for the story to take off and I found myself bored. I read less then 150 pages in 2 weeks. 

As a person with greek heritage I was very happy to see the representative here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism and Homophobia

Minor: Suicide and Abortion

cinnamonpizza8's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

The author did a magical job of tying together a beautiful story of immigration and conflict and history effortlessly. I felt engrossed in this book when I read it, wanting to hear all the details and deeply thinking of the concepts the author rose through the characters. The fig tree was the best part of the story - I loved having this omnipresent voice that felt grounded (haha, get it). Overall, a great story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Misogyny, Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Grief, Genocide, Drug abuse, Child death, Suicide, Death of parent, Death, Sexism, Racism, War, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Murder, Islamophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

blueberry0531's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Child death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abortion, Alcoholism, Murder, Homophobia, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide

lulunyx's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective 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

This book is superb. Intricately woven themes, blatant horror interspersed within gorgeous descriptions, combined with emotive similes and metaphors that call back to the themes and plot. Devastating and uplifting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Murder, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia

achingallover's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Religious bigotry, Violence, War, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Bullying

mwaskom's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

beautiful. I learned so much about Cyprus and it was so engaging. Though it is rooted in many specific places and times, it's truly about the experiences, connections, and desires we all have. Only reason it's not a 5 star read is that the tree metaphors and very heavy handed, like this book was made for a 10th grade English essay about symbolism (and would be an amazing assigned reading) but I thought it would benefit from a little more subtlety. 🌳

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Xenophobia, Child death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Murder, Colonisation, Pregnancy, Islamophobia, and Hate crime

Minor: Abortion

amydixon's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I love books that blend beautiful stories with historical fact so this book was perfect for me! I have learned a lot about the history of Cyprus as well as nature, and the description is stunning.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War and Violence

Minor: Abortion and Homophobia

crimsonlilies's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Violence, War, Suicide, Murder, Grief, Alcohol, and Alcoholism