Reviews tagging 'War'

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

21 reviews

girlwhoreadssomtimes's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted tense 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: War, Death of parent, Death, and Child death

It was a great book with a good message

brooketreads's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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

5.0

What a powerful story. How incredibly heart wrenching to not know if you will live, not know if your family is alive, and have a future full of unknowns. There was a point when Salva thought that the men that he was being taken by thought him weak, but he knew he was not. I enjoyed the duel timelines that meet up by the end. This story serves as such a powerful reminder to appreciate what you have and help people when you can.

I wish the audiobook had been read by Salva Dut. I loved getting to hear his short message at the end of the book. Dut’s organization, Water for South Sudan, is working on providing safe drinking water and toilet facilities to the people of South Sudan.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War and Gun violence

jad377's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Great- based on a true story tale about The Lost Boys of Sudan, life struggling to find & collect water every day, surviving in a war torn country & the struggles of a conflict filled country in turmoil. A very inspiring & hopeful tale, too. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, Genocide, Child death, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

kendraparker82's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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: Murder and War

Moderate: Child death

al3xa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

listened to first half on audiobook & read second half! will be teaching this this year as it’s in our curriculum. has many emotional, traumatic, and devastating incidents for the main character (based on a real person) but overall hopeful at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Grief, Genocide, Blood, Child death, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Violence, Colonisation, Abandonment, and Deportation

ms_sarah621's review against another edition

emotional sad tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, War, Death, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

caterwaul's review

adventurous tense fast-paced

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

3.75

A very quick and enjoyable read. It's probably not something I would have picked up outside of the context of a reading challenge, but it's definitely not a bad book. I did like how the two stories eventually circled around to connect together

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War and Death

lcg527's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

lollipopkenny123's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, War, and Death

rex_b20's review

emotional inspiring fast-paced

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

3.0

Read this book for school, it was a quick and enjoyable read. The ending was very heartwarming.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and War