Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

56 reviews

cat_22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Violence, Death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual content, Grief, Child death, Body horror, and Homophobia

Minor: Abandonment, Colonisation, Death of parent, and Kidnapping

charlottelilac's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Murder, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Police brutality, Colonisation, Car accident, and War

mrlsdevos's review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Genocide, Car accident, Child death, Hate crime, Torture, Racism, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, War, Xenophobia, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Classism, Mental illness, Slavery, Animal death, Death of parent, Suicide, Colonisation, Car accident, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

alisonvh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

The more I think about this book, the higher my rating. It’s so good and thought provoking and well written. I’ll probably need to come back to it for a reread sometime because I’m sure there’s a lot that I missed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Drug use, War, Racism, Gun violence, Homophobia, Torture, Police brutality, Grief, Alcohol, Abandonment, Murder, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Blood, Violence, and Child death

asainspace's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Clever, dark, witty, existential book about genocide, war and what it means to photograph and bear witness to inhumanity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Suicide, Homophobia, Violence, Genocide, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Sexual assault

psdarlin's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Genocide, Sexual content, Torture, Cursing, Homophobia, Murder, Police brutality, and War

mwritesdragons's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? No

4.0

This is a really hard book to give a star rating because of how difficult the subject matter can be; it is a challenging read but worth the effort.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, War, Murder, Violence, Racism, Grief, Gore, Death, Genocide, and Colonisation

oohhsusannah's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Homophobia, Murder, Violence, and War

livcashmere's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.75

I was pretty disappointed with this book, probably my own fault as I went into it with extremely high expectations. Overall, I found the writing to be too disjointed. The plot felt like it was jumping all over the place for the first two thirds of this book. I also found the twist at the end to be a little predicable. However, I did enjoy the character  developed and the authenticity in which they were portrayed, especially Jaki. In fact, I would have liked more from her character. I think the last third of this book is what won me over more in the end. I like that all the characters, even the dead ones, had realistic endings. I hate it when books end to cheery for every character. The ending definitely had that nice ‘full-circle’ feel to it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Kidnapping, Violence, War, Murder, Homophobia, Suicide, Death, and Colonisation

aristarcodisamo's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Child death, Gore, Violence, Genocide, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Racism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, War, Child abuse, Torture, Car accident, Death of parent, Homophobia, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Classism, Colonisation, Animal death, Kidnapping, Grief, Sexual harassment, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Cursing, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cancer, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Addiction