Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Blindness by José Saramago

18 reviews

annihilatrix's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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

1.0

Truly just so much poop and rape and poop.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Violence, Vomit, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexism, Physical abuse, Grief, Sexual assault, Rape, Emotional abuse, Chronic illness, Cannibalism, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Police brutality, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Fatphobia, and Ableism

michaelb_bell's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, Excrement, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Torture

btrz7's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Infidelity, Police brutality, Ableism, Blood, Confinement, Death, Murder, Rape, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Homophobia

platangel's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, Gun violence, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism

morgan_07's review

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I read this book as a part of a book club and I think if it weren't for that factor, I probably would've put the book down. I can appreciate the concept and development of the book, but it was pretty slow and the punctuation style was difficult at times. This book was also extremely heavy and could definitely be considered triggering - going into it, I knew it would be like this at times, but not to the extent that it was. I would recommend the novel though to mature fans of Lord of the Flies, as I do see a lot of similarity in between the two books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

Minor: Alcohol and Excrement

therowdypi's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Confinement

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

paulinevdw's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

Psychological experiment, well built world, what if: pandemic with loss of vision

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Police brutality, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Death, Gore, Excrement, and Blood

hopefull and beautiful book even though the horrors are enormous

gershgorin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Confinement, Excrement, Gore, Infidelity, Police brutality, and Vomit