Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Don't Whisper Too Much and Portrait of a Young Artiste from Bona Mbella by Frieda Ekotto

2 reviews

valodniece's review

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

3.5

This isn't a pair of novellas so much to be enjoyed as it is to be experienced, because besides the stories existing within the hopeful frame of women loving women, most of the rest is horrific, violent and terrible. The enforced silence and violence of everyday life, the brutality that can come out of nowhere, and so on. I'm not sure whether there's a positive hopefulness for the future to be gained from this, or if it is just negative despair that society will never change.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Colonisation, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexism, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Child abuse, Misogyny, Blood, Death, Murder, and Racism

morebedsidebooks's review

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Ableism, Blood, Child abuse, Incest, Death, Grief, and Sexual content

Minor: Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, Vomit, Abortion, Kidnapping, Racism, and Domestic abuse