Reviews tagging 'Death'

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

120 reviews

kgmck's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Colonisation, and Genocide

lasafica_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Colonisation, Death, Murder, and Racism

kjofalltrades's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, War, Animal cruelty, and Rape

tenderbench's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Rape, Sexual assault, Genocide, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Colonisation, Gore, Death, and War

careinthelibrary's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.0

It's a small but mighty book with shocking moments. Told in two parts, we witness gendered violence and stay a short while with lives disrupted and destroyed by Israel's crimes against humanity. Consuming this in a day, I just had to know how it would end. It kept me enthralled right to the last page. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Mass/school shootings, Rape, Sexual assault, Racism, Blood, Misogyny, Violence, and Gun violence

risemini's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Death, Genocide, War, Grief, Murder, and Rape

martieb's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Xenophobia, and Death

Moderate: Violence and Rape

readingthroughinfinity's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Harrowing and powerful in equal measures. Reading the first chapter/section from the IDF soldier's perspective and seeing how they treated the young woman was appaling, but I can see why the author opened the book that way. We witness first hand the violence and cruelty of the Israeli soldiers and their complete lack of empathy towards Palestinian people. 

The symbolism threaded through both parts of the story was fantastic, and the growing parallels between what happened to the woman in 1949 and what happens to our present day narrator were masterfully written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Rape, War, Genocide, and Gun violence

chi__'s review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Kidnapping, Death, Deportation, Colonisation, Genocide, and Rape

raisinreads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense

• Strong character development? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Sexual assault