Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

57 reviews

megchaneywrites's review

4.0

adventurous challenging fast-paced

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Overall a sad, heart wrenching, compelling look at the Great Depression. My heart broke for this family, as they tried so hard to survive on their farm. When they move out to California, life really doesn't get much easier. It's a story of love: loving those who don't love you back, loving your land, loving your children unconditionally, learning to love yourself and believe in dreams again.  

I took one star off the rating because of some language and spicy content. 
Overall, this book was so compelling I could hardly set it down (hence reading it in less than a week!). 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cursing, Sexual content

karlin0336's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I'm sensing a common theme for Kristin Hannah books - they're pure pain and misery and heartbreak.  Yet another ending that I will never recover from 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Pregnancy

Minor: Slavery, Pandemic/Epidemic

ameade92's review against another edition

4.75

emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Gun violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual content, Police brutality, Abandonment, Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Infertility

kailiyahknight's review against another edition

3.0

emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Grief, Abandonment, Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Alcohol

_kt_kat's review

4.0

emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Classism

Minor: Animal death, Sexual content

devinm1214's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Violence, Abandonment, Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content

booksnart2023's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent

Moderate: Miscarriage, Violence, Police brutality, Grief

Minor: Sexual content

natreadthat's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Elsa makes the tough decision to leave everything—the family farm, her in-laws, life as she knows it—and do what’s best for her children during the throes of the Great Depression: head west to California. There, she hopes to find work and settle down in the land of milk and honey. It’s only when they arrive that reality sets in. They’re seen as filthy migrants only good for working in the fields for next-to-nothing pay, left constantly trying to claw their way out of poverty. 

 

It did not go unnoticed how easy it is to see the parallels of Elsa’s story and the events from ~90 years ago and what is still happening today. Environmental disasters, years of economic hardship, and flailing political solutions aren’t just a thing of the past. This book does a great job of reminding you that sometimes even hard work isn’t enough when you’re stuck in a disastrous cycle. 

 

I can’t say I enjoyed The Four Winds. It was a sad, harrowing look into how the land turned against those who called the Great Plains home and left them desperately choosing between abandoning everything or risking death by dust pneumonia. It did, however, vividly tell the story of hardship, bravery, and comradely of everyday people who are forced to be resilient in times of desperation. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Sexual content, Police brutality

anniesbooknook's review against another edition

4.25

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

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child death, Pregnancy

Minor: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Deportation

squarahreads's review

3.75

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Pregnancy, Classism