Reviews tagging 'War'

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

19 reviews

escapinginpaper's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Medical content, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Murder, and Slavery

Moderate: Gun violence, Alcohol, Sexual content, Colonisation, War, Genocide, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal death, Classism, Antisemitism, and Cursing

There is pretty graphic racial violence and a scene involving an entire family being lynched.

mari_books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

Wow this book is actually like a movie in your mind. Capturing so much history, emotion and action in such short pages. I think it takes a little bit to drop into their world, because of all the magic and history some of the nuances were probably lost on me but I would love to see this book as a film - it’s so vivid and muli-layered. Really strong characters, this book easily could have been made into three 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, War, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Kidnapping, and Racial slurs

babydog420's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Murder, Hate crime, Body horror, Racial slurs, and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Blood, and Violence

Minor: Slavery, Religious bigotry, Animal death, War, and Death of parent

louisegraveyard's review

adventurous dark emotional informative sad tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Gun violence, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and War

alexhaydon's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, War, and Blood

kayladaila's review

challenging dark emotional informative 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Murder, Death, Racism, Hate crime, Body horror, and Medical content

Moderate: Medical content, Racial slurs, Violence, War, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Torture, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Kidnapping, Sexual content, Slavery, Genocide, Colonisation, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Trafficking

carlyoc's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny sad 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? Yes

4.5

 Fans of Dread Nation may want to check this book out.
If a monster fed on hate, what part of American history would be his feast? There's a lot of right answers to that, unfortunately. but the heyday of the KKK is a strong contender. In this alternate version of history, a supernatural force has given many members of the Klan the ability to shapeshift into super-strong bone-white houndlike creatures known as Ku Kluxes. Fortunately, their targets have some supernatural help as well, in addition to just plain badassery.
Maryse Boudreaux is armed with a magic sword forged by the vengeance of her ancestors sold into slavery. But her fighting companions Sadie and Chef do just as well for themselves with a mundane Winchester rifle and homemade bombs, respectively. Together, they work to take down the Ku Kluxes as well as discover who the puppet master controlling their strings is and what he wants.
Along the way, Maryse will have to face the past she's been burying, travel into several supernatural realms, and resist the temptation to become a monster herself.
Side note: I find amusing the fact that for once there is a male love interest who does absolutely nothing besides participate in a few sex scenes, get rescued, and serve as motivation. Although I personally would have enjoyed more of a romance angle, I appreciate the way this flips the script on how female love interests are often treated in fiction, and that this is a story about Maryse's fight for survival, not her love life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racism, Racial slurs, and Gore

Moderate: Death, Body horror, and Slavery

Minor: War

horizonous's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

P. Djèlí Clark really never disappoints with his writing and characters (especially female characters), this story just got a bit too weird and gory for my liking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Racism

Moderate: War, Animal death, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, and Violence

Minor: Hate crime and Sexual content

◦ Death = Family member, friend

2ndbooktotheright's review

challenging dark inspiring sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racial slurs, Violence, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death, Gore, Hate crime, and Racism

Minor: Animal death, Slavery, War, and Death of parent