Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde

6 reviews

nojerama's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

OK, I absolutely LOVED this. The best way I can describe it is whimsical eldritch horror, set in a world of magical realism. It deals hugely with themes of queerness and being an outsider in your own body and home, and how those around you try to force and mould you into their shape. How you can escape that and find your people who will love you as you are. Phenomenal book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Deadnaming, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Trafficking, Bullying, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Outing, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Drug use, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Transphobia

rjo's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Sexual content, Blood, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Lesbophobia, Hate crime, Murder, Violence, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Torture

Moderate: Child death, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Pedophilia, and Death of parent

Minor: Trafficking and Kidnapping

hailstorm3812's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

I picked this up by chance at the Aesop Queer Library and I am so glad I did. As an American it took a bit to understand some of the dialogue but it is worth it. For a lot of the book it functions almost like short stories with a thematic through line for each section, but the end threads them all together beautifully in a way that made me sob. I loved it and will be looking for more from this author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, Death, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Body horror, and Classism

Minor: Physical abuse, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Police brutality, and Deadnaming

chapstickdealer's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Great book, hard to get through if you're not keen on anthologies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Death, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

uranaishi's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious 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

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Misogyny, Abandonment, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, Police brutality, Vomit, Cancer, Colonisation, Medical content, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual violence, Abortion, Addiction, Trafficking, Transphobia, Child abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, and Miscarriage

abijmieds's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Cancer, Confinement, Mental illness, Outing, Murder, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, Drug use, Child death, Classism, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Death, Sexism, Violence, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, and Racial slurs