Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

19 reviews

mireillecum's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Child death, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, Vomit, Death of parent, and Gun violence

ren_dragon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Death of parent, Grief, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Cursing

kelseyd's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

 I was looking for a book to replicate the vibe of "The Last of Us" and boy, did this book deliver. Creepy, otherworldly, plus a badass monsterslayer who is a woman for once? So good. Maggie is living in the (dystopian) Sixth World, with only the Navajo Nation left above water, and legends and monsters walking amongst the humans. Maggie was raised by an immortal and then abandoned; now she fights monsters for bounty and basically pisses off everyone around her. The only person she likes asks her to take on his grandson as her partner (and guess what? He's cute!) and they go on adventures trying to find out who is creating the zombies walking around. It wasn't a perfect book but I am so excited to see where this series goes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Gun violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, and Gore

vivavia's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Child death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Death, Police brutality, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Cannibalism, and Toxic relationship

redthistle's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Body horror, Torture, Police brutality, Violence, Child death, Blood, Gore, Grief, Abandonment, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism and Colonisation

alyssamakesart's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Police brutality, Vomit, and Blood

Moderate: Cursing and Racism

Minor: Ableism

tay_bae's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Abandonment and Alcohol

coffeeandcomedy's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Abandonment, Alcohol, Child death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Cultural appropriation, and Death

Moderate: Cursing

Tagged cultural appropriation as a major content warning because there is some controversy around Roanhore using Diné culture/stories/beliefs as she is not Diné.

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

I think what I read of the book was fine.  It's a post-apocalyptic earth with gods and monsters aplenty but I didn't like the main characters.  It's right at the point where I stopped (almost halfway through the book) when you finally start getting some explanations about what is going on/how things work and it wasn't interesting to me.

I don't want to force myself to finish another book I am not enjoying and my tentative rating before quitting the book was somewhere in the 2 star region.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Gore, Sexual harassment, Torture, Gun violence, Sexism, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Child death, and Toxic friendship

horizonous's review

adventurous dark tense

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, Police brutality, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cannibalism and Panic attacks/disorders

◦ Death = Family member