Reviews tagging 'War'

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

29 reviews

penge1st's review

emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Pretty good!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Antisemitism and War

avasbookmark's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Homophobia, Death of parent, and War

amandarosexox's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Truly phenomenal writing, one of my new favourite books. I highly recommend this book, it’s just beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia, Antisemitism, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Genocide and Suicidal thoughts

shay43geek's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious relaxing tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Antisemitism, and Abandonment

Moderate: Homophobia, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Racism and Alcohol

readin_robin19's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Excellent, but very sexually explicit. Haunting, atmospheric , psychologically intense story of two very different women and a house. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and War

sha's review

emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Death of parent, and War

updownwrong's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Beautiful and mysterious, almost dreamlike. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Antisemitism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Genocide and War

kirstym25's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Racism and War

_soraya_pl's review

challenging emotional reflective tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.25

The book starts so slow but stay with it. The writing kept me going and was incredible; it has an air of new literary fiction. I didn’t know it was a sapphic novel; this is your graphic sex warning. Part 3 was jaw dropping when the POV becomes Eva’s. The novel wrapped up well. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Antisemitism and War