Reviews tagging 'War'

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

21 reviews

ieotter13's review against another edition

reflective sad tense slow-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

3.25

while the writing was often gorgina the first ~200 pages of the book were really slow and i found it hard to get into. once it picked up, i enjoyed seeing the world through the eyes of little francie and it reminded me a lot of Angela’s Ashes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Infertility, and Death of parent

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Violence

Minor: War

classicslover's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Child death

Minor: Violence, War, Bullying, Excrement, and Miscarriage

zosiablue's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

First time I've read this and what fucking bittersweet gut punch. A perfect story about childhood and wanting time to hurry up and slow down at the same time. I want to hug this book. 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

Minor: Abortion and War

arguhlincozzi's review against another edition

dark inspiring reflective 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

4.5

Would definitely recommend reading with a critical eye. There are racist tropes shared throughout the text, but clearly as part of the perspective of a white young woman raised by white immigrants in the early 1900s. The story is still interesting and well-written, and I enjoyed reading it immensely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Antisemitism, Bullying, War, Sexism, Racial slurs, and Sexual harassment

mondovertigo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Pregnancy, Classism, Misogyny, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Infidelity, Murder, Sexual assault, War, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Antisemitism, and Child death

missrosymaplemoth's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Classism, Infertility, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Minor: War

alyssapusateri's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Alcoholism

Moderate: Antisemitism, Classism, Infertility, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, and War

karinarob's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Alcoholism, and Sexual assault

Minor: War and Gun violence

b0ygenius's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

4.5

WOWWWW i love this book so much definitely one of my favorite coming of age stories ever. such a beautiful story about hope and family and strength and survival and i think i really needed that right now. i’m always hesitant to read classics bc sometimes they are very slow and long and the language is hard to read but this one isn’t like that at all; the language is very accessible and easy to read i don’t think i had to look up any words the whole time i read it, it was slow at first, not necessarily boring i thought it was interesting but there was a lot of backstory and a lot of setting the scene for the second half of the book so it took me like 2 weeks to read the first third but then i read the last two thirds in two days. highly recommend 

this book is this is me trying and nothing new by taylor swift in book form 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Classism, Grief, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Infidelity

Moderate: Murder, Medical content, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Medical trauma, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Bullying, Antisemitism, War, and Religious bigotry

sjanke2's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, War, Classism, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Addiction, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Rape, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Grief, Gun violence, Infertility, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, and Terminal illness