Reviews tagging 'Deportation'

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

6 reviews

geminisoul's review

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

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

5.0

This is one of those stories that makes you stop and reflect on your own inner strength and resilience. It truly shines a light on what people went through during that time period. The author has does an outstanding job of creating characters that seem to leap off the page. They are not perfect but they are so human in some of the best, and for some worst, ways. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Pregnancy

Minor: Bullying, Miscarriage, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and Deportation

achay91's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child death and Pregnancy

Minor: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Deportation

courtneykatzmeyer's review

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Death of parent, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Violence, Abandonment, and Deportation

crabbytaco's review

adventurous emotional informative slow-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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Animal death, Police brutality, and Abandonment

Minor: Murder and Deportation

abbasaurusrex's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

This was my first Kristin Hannah. I saw someone describe the author’s books as the Hallmark movies of historical fiction and now, having finished this, I can confirm that is accurate. Equal parts trauma porn and pearl clutching, this book just did not strike the right chords for me. I appreciated the view into a particular place and time in history that I knew little about, but found it a bit overdone, as it seems like the author is trying to address every single hardship of the Dust Bowl farmers/migrant workers through a single family’s experience. By the end of the book I almost felt sorry for the characters, not as victims of history, but as victims of the author. I just don’t enjoy watching people get dumped on, no matter how “historically accurate” the author might claim the events to be. The character development also didn’t hit. I found all of the characters to be a bit one-note and inconsistent, and their “development” (if you can call it that) seemed forced and incomplete. It’s almost like the author said, “I wanna write about the Dust Bowl,” instead of saying “here are some themes I want to explore, and I think the Dust Bowl and this particular family is the appropriate context in which to examine those themes.” She somehow manages to do too much and too little at the same time. Finally, there is not a single person of color in the narrative. I would have appreciated a more diverse perspective for a book that tries to tackle such a massive part of US history.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Xenophobia, Grief, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Miscarriage, Violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Pregnancy and Deportation

lidia7's review

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Police brutality, Grief, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic