Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

182 reviews

strugglecity's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Genocide, and Body horror

Moderate: Homophobia, Colonisation, and Violence

Minor: Torture, Police brutality, and Suicide

fivefeather's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Seven Moons is a twisting rat's-nest of a story - easy to get lost in, but constantly engaging, and always moving forwards. Brutal, graphic, and darkly witty.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Murder, Sexual content, Death, Hate crime, Police brutality, War, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Genocide

Minor: Car accident, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Drug use, Animal death, and Death of parent

allisonz6's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Murder, Suicide, Genocide, Death, and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual violence, Death of parent, Animal death, Sexual content, and Child death

Minor: Suicide attempt

lynnebetweenthelines's review against another edition

challenging dark

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Suicide, Violence, Homophobia, and Police brutality

Moderate: Torture and Islamophobia

clovetra's review

i am so sorry god i wish i liked this more!
sorry its such a minor pet peeve when books use overly-flowerly language. like yes some description is needed but.,.. this book was too much.
i told myself in 2024 to dnf any book that does not spark joy, and this book did not spark joy at all.
yeah i know im not really giving this book a chance but honestly i dont want to.
that sounds mean
idk i just didn't like it & where it was going!
mayhaps a future pick-up (i highly doubt it sadly)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, War, and Blood

Minor: Child death

nickibreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

4.5

Captivated the entire time. Writing style was quirky, plot was original. I was surprised by all of the twists, and felt so invested in the stories of all the characters, who were complex. Wow. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Animal death, Death, Gun violence, and War

rosalind's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny reflective tense medium-paced

• 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Murder, and War

Moderate: Blood, Classism, Child death, Colonisation, Grief, Sexual content, and Homophobia

Minor: Lesbophobia, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Blood, and Genocide

mattiaforc's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Violence, Torture, War, Murder, Blood, Death, Police brutality, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Homophobia, and Racism

margardenlady's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Maali is dead.  He has seven moons (days) to find the two people he loves most and discover how and why he died. And that begins a turbulent trip through dreams and reality, war and searching for peace. Set up in seven sections, each moon's events play out as a stream of consciousness allegory at first, but there is some resolution at the end. Lots of the references were out of my ken (Sri Lankan internal conflicts, Buddhist faith).  And there was so much violence that I had to read in small chunks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Sexual violence, and Genocide

vaindesi's review against another edition

dark mysterious

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Xenophobia, and Homophobia