Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Cantoras by Caro De Robertis

46 reviews

jessicaelisa's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Homophobia, Abandonment, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Police brutality, Alcohol, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Lesbophobia, and Medical trauma

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Torture, Miscarriage, and Alcoholism

feliciana's review against another edition

emotional reflective

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Police brutality, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

lexi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Torture

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Abandonment

Minor: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Genocide

There are a lot of potentially triggering topics in this book, but it never felt like "torture porn" to me. It wasn't there to shock, it was there because these are real experiences people have.

emzireads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Suicide, and Homophobia

beleng's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Police brutality, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Pedophilia, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

kgroods9's review against another edition

dark hopeful sad slow-paced

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

4.5

the writing is really beautiful. more poetic than your average fictional prose, but that doesn’t hinder the pace or storytelling. fell in love with each of the characters and think this did an excellent job of showcasing the different ways a demise of a relationship could look like when the partners are friends above all else 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Homophobia, and Forced institutionalization

alexiswiththefreckles's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

This book held me and would not let go. I want to get a physical copy asap (listened on audiobook) so I can read it again and find all those sentences that felt more like lyrics to me.  It was stunning, hopeful, heartbreaking, joyous, all at once.  Following these queer women find themselves and lose themselves and struggle and succeed felt like an honor. I don't know if I have the right words, but I think this will be one of my top books of the year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, and Police brutality

Moderate: Alcoholism, Racism, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

megplant's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Torture

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, and Biphobia

Conversion therapy

liketrees's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

4.75

This book had been on my radar since it came out, but also... this was not at all what I thought it was going to be about? I don't know what I was confusing it with.

A lovely queer addition to one of my favourite genres, books about groups of friends and how they change over decades.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

Minor: Grief, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Torture

Life in a militarized state, generally; conversion therapy

bookishdeelight's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Alcoholism