Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Trees by Percival Everett

8 reviews

rosecahill's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

janann's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense

• 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

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Child abuse, Child death, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, and Bullying

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

isabezza's review

challenging dark informative mysterious medium-paced

3.75

The Trees is a gory and psychologically engaging thriller with a historically accurate theme of social justice and racial hatred. I considered this novel informative on many levels as it exposed the extreme violence subjected to black bodies in the USA throughout history. Interestingly, without a time frame given at the beginning of the narrative, I assumed this book was set pre 1960's for a few chapters based on the horrific and outdated behaviours of many characters, before cultural clues and modern technology appeared in the text resulting in my realisation that is story is representing a possibility in the PRESENT DAY. For this and many other factors, the story was eye-opening. I also enjoyed the more light hearted elements of the text, such as the brotherly banter between detectives Ed and Jim and the not-so-generous hilarious representation of Trump (although his name was not explicitly mentioned.)
My only criticisms of this book was the amount of characters becoming too complex to follow when the crimes depicted are supernatural and bizarre enough. Additionally, the writing style was a little aggravating, with "Jim said," "Ed said," etc. after every sentence of dialogue, but try not to let this get in the way of how exciting the story is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Violence, Murder, Gore, Genocide, Racial slurs, Grief, Racism, and Hate crime

emilybelger's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Racism, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Grief, and Hate crime

inthemoonforcheese's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Ableism, Genocide, Incest, Police brutality, Racism, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Gore, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Body horror, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Murder, and Racial slurs

this book is so crazy i have no idea how i feel about it

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Murder, Death of parent, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Racism

bella_cavicchi's review

challenging dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

A book that left me utterly speechless -- and, as I told a friend this afternoon, thinking as only the best books do. One to read, folks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Police brutality

Moderate: Grief and Fatphobia

Minor: Alcoholism and Fire/Fire injury