Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

40 reviews

irene_g08's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Read #2: 2023
I reread this book for school and my previous rating of 4 stars still stands but I think I have some more insight I didn’t have before. If I had to describe this book in one word it would be heartbreaking. All the characters have so much undiscussed trauma and they all cope with it differently. The writing is very hard and the trauma representation feels very realistic. I still think Amir was a selfish character, but by the end I think he is on the path to start redeeming himself. I highly recommend this book both please do know that there are many many trigger warnings that need to come with it. 

So I gave this book a 4 stars. And let me tell you why. First off the positives: The writing is incredible. The descriptions are so well written and so easy to imagine. The characters are written with positives and negatives making it hard to love and hate them. Now the negatives: The way the main character, Amir, acts is absolutely horrible. He has a bigger the life ego and always wants things to go his way. The way he treats his friend and then goes to save this friend’s kid is so wrong. His redemption journey is selfish as he is doing it to clear HIS conscious. He always gets himself in trouble that his friend, Hassan, or Hassan’s child, Sohrab, has to get him out of. I also didn’t cry most likely due to the fact that I couldn’t get over what Amir did no matter what he tried to do. It was still a good book nonetheless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Death, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Bullying, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Infertility and Infidelity

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Pedophilia, Self harm, War, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Genocide, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

ashley_1206's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

4⭐️

i actually liked this book because of how deep it was and the amount of significance it held. if you’re going to read this or are forced to read this for school please prepare yourself because a lot of the time a lot of traumatic and triggering things happen. but i did enjoy this book more than i enjoyed my other required readings for school.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cancer, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Abandonment, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, and War

space_bandit's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Terminal illness, War, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs

Minor: Homophobia and Infidelity

tahsintries's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Bullying, Cancer, Death of parent, Rape, Pedophilia, and Sexism

Moderate: Grief, Child abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicide attempt, and War

Minor: Domestic abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, and Miscarriage

sweeetzoejane's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Classism, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Death of parent, Hate crime, Gun violence, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Death, Genocide, Sexual assault, Sexism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, and Rape

myriam_almonti's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Genocide, Abandonment, Vomit, War, Addiction, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cancer, Drug use, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Suicide attempt

zezeki's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, War, Chronic illness, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, and Infertility

annanas123's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, War, and Rape

Moderate: Xenophobia

Minor: Infidelity

imaginefishes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

I was originally skeptical of starting this book due to its length and what I believed to be touching on heavy topics, and the start of the book was somewhat slow to get through because of that. However, as the story progressed, I found I couldn't help but be drawn more and more to the book, and I genuinely could not stop thinking about it. The book is deliciously tightly woven together, where certain things certain characters say make an appearance throughout the book much like they sometimes would in our memories and lives, and the author touches on so many social issues pertaining to the context of Afghanistan, which, many of which remain unsolved and continue to be perpetuated today, especially with the recent insurgence of the Taliban. I find this book to be as relevant now as it was nearly 20 years ago, and the way the plot points and how each character is written is truly marvelous and leaves such a lasting imprint on your memory.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual violence, Violence, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Rape, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Grief, Self harm, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Suicide attempt, Pedophilia, Body horror, Ableism, Gun violence, and Murder

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Terminal illness, and Slavery

The plot points on

paedophilia and rape

were quite shocking, especially initially, and it is truly horrifying to realise these are real things that happen to real people, real children in Afghanistan (and the rest of the world), and the violence and ideology held by Assef which eventually led him to

become one of the leaders of the Taliban and partake in an ethnic cleansing of his own

was really quite vile and again, extremely shocking when it happened.

Luckily, not all hope is lost, and he manages to get some sort of payback, however little.

However, what I have to say is I really did not enjoy the company of the main character - while it is understandable he did what he did, I found it enraging how

Hassan was always the one to come to his rescue, even in death, via Sohrab and his use of the slingshot, though it does make sense in the context of the book and his societal standing.

The book is rife with tragedy, but that small sliver of hope by the ending managed to bring it back a little, thankfully, and

somewhat redeem Amir from the demon he once thought he was

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