Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

47 reviews

samcsmith's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Child death, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Murder, Violence, Antisemitism, Blood, Death, Medical content, War, Confinement, Car accident, Suicide, Genocide, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

corvicore's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Antisemitism, Child death, Death, and War

Moderate: Confinement and Death of parent

Minor: Abandonment and Fire/Fire injury

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, War, Confinement, Death of parent, Hate crime, Genocide, and Child death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Suicide

Minor: Alcohol, Ableism, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, and Classism

paddy_chh's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Antisemitism

jg34's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Sorry I can’t write a review yet bc I’m still crying my eyes out 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Racism, Police brutality, Death, Confinement, Genocide, Antisemitism, Blood, Violence, Racial slurs, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, Suicide, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Car accident

A boo set in nazi germany during WWII that does not shy from details

r3ader's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

This book is hauntingly beautiful. It describes the Zeitgeist of the second world war in Germany perfectly. As a German who has to often deal with the atrocities done by my ancestors, I think it was nice and interesting to read about a family who were living in Nazi Germany and were still not the "evil Nazis" we think of.
The ending was shocking, but at the same time realistic.
Death as the narrator for a story in Nazi Germany is also genius, it felt like a whole 'nother point of view.
The only critique I would have for this book is that some uses of German words are false. For example Pfiffikus never meant a person who often whistles, it is an old word for someone who is pfiffig (=smart). However this did only slightly disturb my reading, so this book is still 5☆.
I would recommend it to EVERYONE. It is truly a must-read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, War, Death of parent, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Hate crime, Suicide, Child death, and Genocide

Minor: Alcohol, Confinement, Cursing, Deportation, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

bookmark3brodi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Child death, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Body horror, Physical abuse, War, Abandonment, and Blood

spineofthesaurus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, War, Physical abuse, Grief, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Death, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Blood, Genocide, Abandonment, Classism, Confinement, and Forced institutionalization

abbyluvsfrogs444's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

"It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding." 

Wow. That was a life-changing book. That was so sad. I am so glad that I read it, though. This is one of those books that is becoming a modern classic and everyone knows about it. And it definitely deserves that classic status. What a read. What a sad yet beautiful story. I love this book. But I'll probably never read it again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Bullying, War, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Antisemitism, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Cursing, Suicide, Car accident, and Confinement

Minor: Abandonment and Alcohol

kade_s's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Grief, War, Death, Child death, Death of parent, Antisemitism, and Hate crime

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Racism, Suicide, Car accident, and Child abuse

Minor: Bullying