Reviews tagging 'Death'

Os Quatro Ventos by Kristin Hannah

120 reviews

ehamlett's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Classism

Moderate: Police brutality and Violence

Minor: Child death and Death

dylly_russell's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Miscarriage

Moderate: Blood, Child death, and Misogyny

Minor: Physical abuse and Sexual content

kayleajayne's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

I didn’t like the part about Dalhart, Texas. The main character’s family had been in Texas for five generations, but the Civil War house in Dalhart is just not accurate. I was born in the Texas Panhandle. Those towns were not established until the late 1890s and even early 1900s after the rail road made life there possible. Little details like the Mexican maid aren’t right. Even the wealthiest people in these towns didn’t really have maids, and if they did they  weren’t  Mexican. This far north didn’t see Mexican immigration until way later, after WWII. And it is so far north of land where  Mexican people historically had lived since the 1500s. I know it’s historical fiction, but since I live in the area of the Dust Bowl, it irked me a little. But aside from that, the book is beautifully written to capture and weave a story about Okies and those who tried to escape destruction in the Dust Bowl. It is heartbreaking but well done. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Violence, Animal death, Police brutality, Death, and Grief

akleinb1's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Animal death

thursdd4y's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Abandonment, Death of parent, Grief, and Violence

funkaroo12's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Death, and Sexual content

beankels's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

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

4.0

I don’t fully know how I feel about The Four Winds. I have loved Kristin Hannah books and I absolutely love a book centered on women and their resilience. I knew this book would be full of tragedy and dark times. I can’t tell how I feel about it all. 

I didn’t love the first 20% of the book and got more and more into it as time went on. I love the labor movement in the last third of the book - really adds to the historical fiction aspect. I’m still not fully decided on how I feel about the book as a whole, but I am glad I read it and feel a respect for women - as I always do after reading Kristin Hannah books. You go, Elsa. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: Miscarriage, Classism, Police brutality, and Gun violence

bookswithnichol's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.5

This has to be the most depressing book I’ve ever read..

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Grief, Death of parent, Sexism, Bullying, and Death

mcnoble's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Outstanding. A story of adversity during the 1930s during the Dust Bowl that revolves around a character who finds her voice and proves over and over again that she is braver than she believed she ever could be. I started this book on a whim while waiting for other audiobooks to be available from my library and what a gift to have stumbled across this book. I loved historical fictions as a child and to no surprise, I still love them. This book is heart-wrenching yet inspiring. Kristin Hannah paints portraits with her words that describe life during the dust bowl, bringing settings from history books alive and full of emotion. Once I started this book, I could not stop and am looking forward to reading my next Kristin Hannah novel, with the hopes that it invokes the same feelings I had while enjoying this book. Easily one of the top books I have savored as an adult. It relit the excitement for reading with the same feeling as being a child and staying up late to read just one more chapter, again, and again, and again. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Miscarriage, and Police brutality

jennaviolet's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, Miscarriage, and Classism

Moderate: Blood, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Violence, Grief, Excrement, Animal death, Medical content, and Gun violence