Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

The Giver by Lois Lowry

11 reviews

te_ss_i's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Ableism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Torture, and Genocide

melist6's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, War, Ableism, and Death

Minor: Suicide

pumpkinsoup's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Ableism, War, and Suicide

agatha_hopkins's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Ableism

Moderate: Death

ruthmoog's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.5

I quite enjoyed this, but I don't really like the unsettling feeling of distopian stories, and it was plenty disquieting.

I read this having been told it's a Christmas story, it's barely a Christmas story, so it was rather a disappointment in that way!

The concept of how the society has developed it's perception of things was cool I thought.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism and Gaslighting

Minor: War

Starvation/hunger

theliteratewalrus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

This book was great. I recommend it to everyone who likes dystopian books or wants to get into dystopian books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Death, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Suicide, and Ableism

Child death ->

There is a not very graphic scene were a baby is killed using a syringe of poison

Animal death ->

There is a not very graphic scene that takes place before the book itself in which an elephant is killed by poachers

Suicide ->

There is a story told by one of the main characters about another character intentionally applying for release (in this book "release" basically means putting someone down in a hospital. Kinda like putting down a dog, except with humans

marinapaso11's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Gaslighting, and Child death

Moderate: Murder and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy and Suicidal thoughts

jselliot's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Probably my first introduction to the dystopian genre, and an enduring favorite. The entire quartet is great, but the first book is arguably the best. It certainly made little-me think, and I've come back to it a few times since I first read it.

I see the movie as an alternate universe, and while it's not book-accurate, it's still entertaining for its own reasons.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Child abuse, Gaslighting, and Violence

Minor: War, Medical content, Ableism, and Medical trauma

abrose2001's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

 The absolute classic everyone has to read once. A good introduction to dystopia, without too heavy of themes or distraction from the fact that this is a utopia that can't work out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Ableism

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.75

I'm tired of and it's getting ridiculous how I'm always reading anti abortion, anti-pc conservative bs into some books I read but this corny little Brave New World-lite book is riddled with that. Yeah, I'll admit it has engaging writing for its part (

the scene where psycho Father kills the twin baby really did fokn distressed me and I'm having a hard time getting out of my head

), and Jonas is easy to like, and I might have been a Giver stan when I was a kid and in my rebellious, anti-authority figures, ANGERY, I hate everyone days, but now, the book is ott with white pro-life right wing American fears/ideas. Idk Lowry's political leanings but that was the awful end result. The only thing this book has going for itself is that it's a fast read and as whiny as it was it entertained me for the most part. But idk how crazy I am for thinking this, but I'm truly starting to think now that this book is a huge contributer to Americans anti-bike feelings lmao

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism and Suicide