Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys

12 reviews

emikateb's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Religious bigotry, War, Grief, Medical trauma, and Sexism

Moderate: Classism, Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Police brutality, Gaslighting, Violence, Death of parent, Cancer, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, and Child abuse

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal cruelty

lindsayerin's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Torture, Cancer, and Confinement

ellie_gonzalez's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Police brutality, Grief, Abandonment, and Classism

briannad4's review against another edition

informative mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Gun violence, Police brutality, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Death of parent, Violence, War, Abandonment, and Blood

heureusefemme's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

My favorite book from Sepetys so far. The cast of characters were well written and their purposes in this novel were not wasted. I loved how every character’s plot line was interconnected. Take out any of the main characters and an integral part of  The Fountains of Silence is missing. The audiobook was creative with the primary resources.  My only critique is that at times it felt like the characters were explaining plot threads that didn’t need explaining. There were also times were it felt like the book was explaining the historical time period of the novel. The first couple of times was fine but got repetitive after a while. All in all, a great history fiction book that highlights a  dark time in Spain that many do not know about. I knew about Franco but I did not know the horrific acts he committed during his reign.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Kidnapping, Abandonment, Cancer, Sexual assault, and Police brutality

elizabethpowers's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

idk how to feel

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Sexism and Excrement

Minor: Infidelity, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Police brutality, and Racism

mirroball's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, War, Abandonment, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Grief, Violence, Police brutality, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, and Child death

nebraskanwriter's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad 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? No

4.5

“He scratched a proverb on the wall for future inmates: ‘Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, he became a butterfly.’” 

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Wow, what an amazing book! Being over 500 pages, I was a little intimated to start this but the audiobook was superb and I flew through this.

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The story begins a little slow as Sepetys begins painting a picture of 1957 Spain, controlled by the dictator Franco. She immerses you in the people, the culture, their lives and the many secrets they keep. The silent vow they take. She examins this moment in history from multiple angles, following multiple characters who help show the reader that all is not what it seems in Spain. You have the American, the maid at the hotel and her family, a grave digger and an employee at a Catholic orphanage. But something is off. Children are going missing. Orphanages are overflowing. Mothers are asking about their children and where they went. But no one is giving answers, no one is saying anything. 

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Sepetys slowly pulls back the layers of Franco’s Spain, exposing to Daniel (the naive American) what is actually going on and what all the Spanish people are enduring under the dictator. As I did not know much about Spain’s history, I found this story both fascinating and also horrifying. 

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Sepetys is a master at humanizing history, bringing to life the words in our history books and giving voices to those who have been silenced for far too long. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Racism, Violence, Antisemitism, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Classism, Confinement, and Religious bigotry

kimveach's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative 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

4.5

For such a large book, this was a fairly fast read.  I've read a couple of books set during Franco's war in Spain, but have never read about the time period after when he was the dictator for so many years.  It was fascinating and sad.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Blood, Bullying, Grief, Police brutality, Sexism, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment, Terminal illness, Violence, Sexual harassment, Classism, Death of parent, and Religious bigotry

rouge_reads386's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Child death, and Death of parent