Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

9 reviews

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Child death, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Infidelity, Police brutality, Murder, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Abandonment, Death, Religious bigotry, and Racism

Minor: Cultural appropriation

kandisebrown's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Slavery, Miscarriage, Infertility, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Confinement, War, Ableism, Body horror, Medical content, Child death, Colonisation, and Police brutality

sarahjulianna's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Blood, Death, Sexism, Confinement, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Sexual content, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

nostradamnus's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

Read this if you want to: explore the political climate of the late 2010s/early 2020s through fiction;  read about real, specific people navigating the end of the present world; and/or be made deeply aware of your body and its evolutionary history. Also, if you're into transitionary dystopias.

It's very frustrating to like this book less than The Handmaid's Tale because I think this book is arguably better--it has higher and more specific spec-to-fic ratio, characters that were real, and a really graphic description of watching someone give birth--but I read THT years ago, and I read FHOTLG in 2023. It's the day after my state put in an emergency stop for all trans healthcare. Roe v. Wade is dead. Abortion pills may be next. And I think right now, forced birthing centers, pregnancy policing, and a rising Christo-fascist government just feel a bit too real. 

Maybe I'll be able to reread this in a few years and be able to really take it all in, appreciate it for what it is, but wrong place, wrong time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

Moderate: Torture and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Infertility, and Suicidal thoughts

rachaelwho's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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? No

4.75

Narration by the author is great.
I think the people who didn't like this book wanted it to be spookier and more sci-fi. This is a book about motherhood, womanhood, pregnancy, autonomy, family, ancestry, and what we owe each other. Authoritarianism and institutionalization, too. It is also about climate and catastrophe, near-future dystopia. The sci-fi conceit isn't superfluous, but this isn't quite "genre fiction" and if you wanted to get into that, I guess you probably wouldn't love this one. Reviews hung up on the "science" of the setting not making sense are... Really stunningly, jaw-droppingly missing the forest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Pregnancy, Death, Child death, Confinement, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

kalayk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Confinement, Death, Trafficking, Violence, Child death, and Sexism

Minor: Excrement, Abortion, Alcohol, Gore, Classism, Grief, and Miscarriage

madarauchiha's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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

 ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜  my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 💜 💙 💚 💛 🧡 ❤️

 “How come you’ve looked after me?” I ask Hiro just as he’s about to go. “How come you found me at the hospital? Brought me the messages?”
Hiro looks surprised at my question, taken aback, as though I should know. “You were on my route,” he says. 

Fave line. Hiro being a USPS Postal worker, for context.

content warnings
minor abortion, asian racism, child abuse, cissexism, drug use hard drugs, emetophobia, rape, sexual content, sexual violence, torture, victim blaming

medium alcohol use, anti evolutionary sentiment, anti indigenous racism, anti vaccination sentiment, child abuse, child death, colonization, gambling, kidnapping, racism, suicide ideation, whorephobic language

major animal death, bullying, childbirth, confinement, medical abuse, medical content, misogyny, police, police abuse, pregnancy, religion catholic, reproductive rights, slut shaming, unsanitary, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Pregnancy, Confinement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Police brutality, and Racism

Moderate: Alcohol, Child death, Child abuse, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racism, Abortion, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Vomit, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and Ableism

corinnereads7's review against another edition

challenging dark funny sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

willohreadz's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• 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: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit