Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali

38 reviews

bree_of_the_woods's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Death of parent

smsegal's review against another edition

emotional informative tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence

telemesmerism's review against another edition

emotional slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Infertility, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Abortion

nicolebooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Violence, War, Miscarriage, Adult/minor relationship, and Death

Moderate: Abortion

mels_reading_log's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

This book is beautiful from the cover, to the love stories within. Not only did I fall in love with the characters and have my heart broken with them as well, I found out about some Persian dishes I need to try, because the food in this book leaps off the pages. Such a great love story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Infertility, Miscarriage, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abortion and War

This book takes place in 1950’s Iran through 2013 in America so it does cover a lot of touchy subjects.

spellygirl's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.75

It's a pretty good book, just a bit slow for my taste, and a lot of back and forth between times/people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, and War

Moderate: Abortion, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Cancer and Terminal illness

schausjk's review against another edition

emotional sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Police brutality, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Gore, Mass/school shootings, War, Violence, Abortion, Sexism, Colonisation, Police brutality, and Racism

Minor: Pregnancy, Infertility, Blood, and Cancer

chaoticnostalgia's review against another edition

emotional 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: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, Violence, Gun violence, Grief, Child death, Abortion, Death, Classism, and Mental illness

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexism, and Infertility

Minor: War, Dementia, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Police brutality, and Religious bigotry

agiali's review against another edition

5.0

*:･ﾟ190/ 108 

I want to sue Marjan Kamali solely for the cause of my emotional distress. 


I did not expect to love this as much as I do. I originally heard of this book years ago but figured it wouldn't be for me as it has a very historical setting. I am so upset at my 16-year-old self for not reading this sooner as I am so incredibly unwell but also so thankful that I got to read this work of art. Not only did this book tick me off but it made me fall in love, want to fight people, and then, as we know, I ✨ cried ✨ <i>The Stationery Shop</i> also shocked me many times with the twists I did not see coming. 

This is such a beautiful book, but please check the content warnings because it is FULL of them. This reminded me mildly of the book <i>Alone With You in the Ether</i> by Olivie Blake, but only because it really asked a lot of questions that would ultimately hurt my heart to answer. 

I love Bahman and I will not shut up about him and Roya :')

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Cancer

cozylifewithabby's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.5

I understand the appeal of this book for others, but it was not for me. It had all of my least favorite tropes and minimal character development. Definitely check trigger warnings as it is full of trauma (not the ones you would assume from the back of the book)

This book is The Notebook only partly in Iran

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Child death, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Abortion, Gun violence, Violence, and Miscarriage

Minor: War