Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

113 reviews

erinwolf1997's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Xenophobia, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual content, Blood, and Pregnancy

sandysmith's review

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-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? Yes

4.25

I'm gradually adding books I've read in 2021 to give a true reflection of the books I've read since keeping records.  This was the first book I read in 2021, and is what kick-started my reading journey having put reading on the  back burner whilst bringing up the children,  previously being an avid reader. Based in 1934 in the depression in America with the loveable main character Elsa Martinelli, who tries to make a better life for herself and children. In the dust bowl era taking her from the drought and great plaibs of Texas in search of a better life in California. Historical fiction beautifully researched and written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, and Death of parent

knaappers's review against another edition

5.0

Can’t imagine a world when i don’t 5 star a K Hannah book. 

I didn’t expect this book to go as hard as it did. Kristin Hannah always seems to know what story needs to be told. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, and Police brutality

sarahflanders's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

lalalauren_'s review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Police brutality

babewiththepower's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Sad, bleak and depressing. I had very little knowledge of this history and did learn a lot. The starvation was hard to read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism

ehamlett's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Classism

Moderate: Violence and Police brutality

Minor: Child death and Death

kayleajayne's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

I didn’t like the part about Dalhart, Texas. The main character’s family had been in Texas for five generations, but the Civil War house in Dalhart is just not accurate. I was born in the Texas Panhandle. Those towns were not established until the late 1890s and even early 1900s after the rail road made life there possible. Little details like the Mexican maid aren’t right. Even the wealthiest people in these towns didn’t really have maids, and if they did they  weren’t  Mexican. This far north didn’t see Mexican immigration until way later, after WWII. And it is so far north of land where  Mexican people historically had lived since the 1500s. I know it’s historical fiction, but since I live in the area of the Dust Bowl, it irked me a little. But aside from that, the book is beautifully written to capture and weave a story about Okies and those who tried to escape destruction in the Dust Bowl. It is heartbreaking but well done. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Infertility, Violence, Police brutality, and Grief

samanthas_book_nook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Sexism, Violence, and Police brutality

ncohen96's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Just when I thought it couldn't get more sad, it did. Again. And again. And again. And again?
The focus on women's experiences during the great depression was refreshing and heartbreaking. The grit that so many women from that era possessed is seldom acknowledged, and Kristin Hannah's novel paid homage to their sacrifices, strength, and courage. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, and Death of parent