Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

29 reviews

marybsimp's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Blood, Death, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Torture, and War

kayesomething's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective relaxing 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body horror, Genocide, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Violence

harleysmiller's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This book destroyed me. There are no words to describe just how beautiful and devastating this book really is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Antisemitism, War, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Death

annie_o007's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, War, and Antisemitism

neptunereign's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Death, Violence, Suicide, War, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Grief, Genocide, Confinement, Child abuse, Blood, Antisemitism, and Abandonment

laravo21's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Genocide, Grief, Racial slurs, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child death

travelthrupages's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Grief, Racial slurs, Self harm, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

birdbrainbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.5

This one is tough, because I know this book is beloved by many and I fully expected to love it. I didn’t dislike it—but I also didn’t connect to it the way I hoped and anticipated.

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The choice of having the character of Death serve as narrator is *chef’s kiss* and much of the writing is breathtakingly poetic. But all in all, the story itself wasn’t what I expected—it really consisted of a very long series of vignettes during protagonist Liesel’s childhood in her German town.

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And then, after so much time spent in detail on childhood antics and thievery, the ending was just so....sudden, sad, and bleak. I don’t like when I feel emotionally manipulated by books (looking at you, Kristen Hannah) and I feel like this one took the devastation a bit too far, too close to the end.

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The characters were memorable, but the story overall didn’t accomplish anything particularly new or interesting for me. Perhaps it’s because I grew up reading/watching so many World War 2 and Holocaust stories, and feel that time period is over saturated.

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I wondered if I didn’t fully connect because I listened on audio, but I don’t think that’s it—the narrator was great and I’ve connected with other books on audio. There were certain phrases that were so overused that it started to grate on my nerves. Maybe I just wasn’t the target audience, since it’s YA. But whatever the reason, it was without a doubt a good book but didn’t totally work for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, and Cursing

alexbobalex's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia