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The Trees by Percival Everett

11 reviews

disguisedposer's review

challenging dark funny mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, Murder, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Physical abuse, Gore, Racial slurs, Blood, Police brutality, Torture, Violence, Gun violence, and Body horror

musebeliever's review

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Body horror, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

nialiversuch's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Blood, Death of parent, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Murder, Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Body horror, Classism, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Hate crime, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Racism, Violence, Alcohol, Body shaming, Ableism, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Misogyny, Police brutality, Physical abuse, and Racial slurs

savvylit's review

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

5.0

The Trees is an utterly brilliant social satire that blew me away from the first page! Everett portrays each White person in this novel as a cartoonish caricature. In doing so, he takes the tradition of American literature that did the same to Black people and winkily turns it on its head. Every page is full of tongue-in-cheek jokes including, most obviously, the character names: Wheat Bryant, Pinch Wheyface, Reverend Doctor Cad Fondle... Hilarious.

The Trees isn't all humor, though. Not at all. Woven within Everett's laugh-out-loud snarky commentary is a revenge tale that requires the reader to remember thousands of people of color who have been lynched in the United States. And how the preparators of those murders nearly always went unpunished. Ultimately, The Trees is a compelling novel about reckoning with the continuing legacy of racial hatred in this country.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Violence, Blood, Gore, Murder, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Racism

summerb's review

dark funny informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Genocide, Slavery, Alcohol, Confinement, Cursing, Gun violence, Police brutality, and War

Minor: Antisemitism, Car accident, Alcohol, Slavery, and War

emroll's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Xenophobia, Torture, Violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, and Slavery

georgiahb's review

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Medical trauma, and Torture

lady_k's review

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia

burntout_bookworm's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

I'm not entirely sure what I have just read. Did I enjoy it? Yes and no. But I think that's the point. It is uniquely written with a solid satirical tone. Yet the topics written about are so essential to talk about and dark that it was a strange reading experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Hate crime, Racism, and Xenophobia

alisonannk's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Death, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Police brutality, and Racism