Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop

1 review

fatimasiddiqui's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

3.25

basically the end was a psycho type situation which is interesting i guess but now seems cliche bc i made that connection

overall a really disgustingly harrowing book especially in the first half. its a hard one to rate because while it is really interesting its also not something i enjoyed reading at all because of three things: 
1. the writing is so repetitive even though its brilliant at times - i swear the book would've been 50 pages shorter if it wasn't so repetitive. 
2. my audiobook narrator was using the most annoying breathy voice to read the book 
3. the subject matter is so gory like i never want to read the word disembowelled ever again 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Cannibalism, Death, Rape, War, Body horror, and Genocide