Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Solito by Javier Zamora

12 reviews

decime_gaby_611's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Una verdadera joya escondida, solito es un libro escrito en ingles, con una traducción al español tan hermosa, que cualquier latinoamericano puede identificarse con facilidad, que realidad tan dura y la narrativa desde los ojos de un  niño de 9 años lo hace dinamicoby muy interesante!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Racism, Blood, Police brutality, Abandonment, Classism, and Deportation

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Blood, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Racism, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, and War

stacylaughs's review

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Deportation

Minor: Violence and War

melflo's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Deportation

Moderate: Racism and Violence

lisettemarie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad tense

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, and Deportation

jacquinotjackie's review

emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Animal death and Death

ivi_reads_books's review

adventurous emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

3.25

The story is being told from the point of view of 9 year-old Javier who grows up with his grandparents because his parents emigrated to the US early in his life. The author describes the harrowing story of how he immigrated illegally to the US to be united with his parents. 

I felt for the characters and loved to see that Javier found people he could rely on while being at the mercy of coyotes. At the same time I would have preferred to hear this story from adult Javier and his point of view. The coming of age awkwardness and bathroom stories were a little much for me.

If a reader doesn't understand basic Spanish they might not get every situation or nuance as there is quite a bit of untranslated Spanish in this book.

I think it's an important story for anyone to hear to understand how terrible the cirumstances in their home countries must be to decide to get on this journey to the US not knowing if they will survive it.

Thanks to Netgalley and Hogarth for a copy of this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, and Abandonment

Minor: Bullying

tiffanymmf's review

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia

Minor: Violence

isleofwoman's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Police brutality

alexisgarcia's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

5.0

wow wow wow. i cannot explain my love for this book. this is such a harrowing tale and at some points i forgot it wasn’t fiction. my heart just broke for the people in the story and it got so tense at times i worried for the survival of javier that i forgot i was reading a memoir. i will never forget this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

ladypolf's review

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Deportation

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Xenophobia, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail