Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

This Place: 150 Years Retold by Sonny Assu, Katherena Vermette, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Jen Storm, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, Brandon Mitchell, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Richard Van Camp, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, Chelsea Vowel

26 reviews

smithreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicide, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Cannibalism and Murder

west_witch's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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? N/A

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, and Colonisation

Moderate: Violence, Police brutality, and War

Minor: Genocide

ninahuynh's review against another edition

emotional informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

I went in only knowing that the short stories were about Indigenous people. It came as a surprise to me that this is specifically on Indigenous people in Canada! I know very little about the history in Canada and the Indigenous people there, so this was definitely a great history lesson for me. There are timelines of actual historic events around the topic each author chooses to create their story around. The different art styles was also refreshing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility

novella42's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Medical content, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and War

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Suicide, and Blood

antijenic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

ceruleanshelves's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

I have never liked the phrase, “History is written by the victors.” … 
…just because stories don’t get written down, it doesn’t mean they’re ever lost. We carry them in our minds, our hearts, our very bones. We honor them by passing them on, letting them live on in others, too. 

Stunning, somber, informative, inspiring. 

Being from the US, I’m not v familiar w the indigenous history within what is now known as Canada. 

I was vaguely familiar with some things like the “sixties scoop” (when indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families and put into homes elsewhere), this touches on that as well as many other historical events during the past 150 years on native lands of the northern end of Turtle Island. 

The art is beautiful and I really appreciated the specific timelines shown with each intro to comprehend what was happening before, during, & after around them. 

The world as we knew it ended the moment colonialism started to creep across these lands. But we have continued to tell our stories; we have continued to adapt. Despite everything, we have survived.

#LANDBACK

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racism, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racial slurs and Sexual assault

Minor: Body horror, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

daniellekat's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, and Colonisation

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Murder, and War

lasafica_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Suicide, Violence, Grief, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Murder

qqjj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative inspiring medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Cannibalism, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

bookbuyingwithkatie's review against another edition

challenging informative sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation