Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

해녀들의 섬 by Lisa See

57 reviews

mvvelde's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Review to come!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Police brutality, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Rape, Torture, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Murder

dieerlesene's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

A beautiful and tragic story about friendship, love, forgiveness and grief. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Rape, Murder, Torture, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, and Sexism

Minor: Miscarriage

barefootamy's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• 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: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Genocide, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

Moderate: Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexual violence

Minor: Rape

charliechan21's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, and Police brutality

Minor: Rape

marsha1268's review against another edition

emotional informative 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Police brutality, Rape, and Violence

sarah984's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

I liked this novel a lot. It was full of interesting historical and cultural details of a location and period that I didn't know much about beforehand but in an easily understandable way. It definitely felt like it was written with respect and love for the real people of Jeju.

The overarching story about forgiveness and seeing other people's perspectives was good but it was also very similar to Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by the same author, which was kind of weird for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Rape, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Cancer, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Trafficking

aristhecool's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Police brutality, and Death

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Child death