Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Jumătate de soare galben by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

48 reviews

the_last_bookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense 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, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Infidelity and Racial slurs

biographybookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-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

I loved hearing from the multiple perspectives, and the author did a great job tying them all together. I enjoyed learning about this war. You really get to hear their thoughts, and it felt like I was growing up along with the characters. I want to read everything by this author!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, and War

laedyred's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

This book requires an analytic, critical lens of a literature student to get the most out of it. The prose can drag at times but this isn't exactly an action-packed story. The horrors of the Nigerian civil war are on full display. Besides the two women protagonists, I hated every character. Men are truly the scum of the earth. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Sexual harassment, and War

ebun_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Hate crime, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, and War

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, and Pregnancy

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Colonisation

betag1013's review against another edition

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

mimio_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Infidelity, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and War

feebles640's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, Excrement, Vomit, and Alcohol

nanc_282's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

Using different narrators, the story recounts the experience of people living through the rise and collapse of the state of Biafra in the 1960s. It is educative about the ideals that led to the formation of the state and harrowing in the account of how the subsequent war effected their lives. Powerful and well-written it offers insights into the experience of conflict through different eyes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Grief

mrslindseypruitt's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Body horror, Child death, Genocide, Infidelity, Rape, Excrement, and Police brutality

mahinamahina's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism and Rape