Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

3 reviews

ryan4092's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Child death, Racism, Suicide, Child abuse, Self harm, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Animal death

thesapphiccelticbookworm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Sexual content, Child abuse, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Racism, Addiction, Child death, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Pedophilia, Violence, Vomit, Car accident, Medical content, Pregnancy, Police brutality, and Animal death

Minor: Bullying and Death of parent

katelynrushton's review

emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

5.0

A difficult read, but well work it. Tells the interconnected stores of 5 Indigenous children as they survived residential schools and the impact that had on their lives.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Drug use, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death