Reviews tagging 'Death'

Sankofa by Nnedi Okorafor

111 reviews

rheagoveas's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Death

almostqualified's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Violence and Gun violence

Minor: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Xenophobia, and Terminal illness

eni_iilorak's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Gun violence and Animal death

Minor: Terminal illness

trippalli's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

A well written story about yes and technology and people, violence, society, community, helping each other, farming, and life, corporate or computer influence and choices...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Body shaming, Death, Death of parent, Violence, and Fatphobia

annamorgan27's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Child death, Death, Blood, and Body horror

tinyjude's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.75

I adored the concept and development of this novella so so much. It is very sad and dark, which is the given with THAT premise (wow). I love books about characters that are Death or represent Death in any form and this one was definitely added to that collection. Also IT HAS A RED FOX IN IT (sorry, your story has a fox and you win me over). The journey, the growth of the character, the political issues it tackles and how it is handled at the end. It was, without a doubt, a treat of a novella.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, Death, Hate crime, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual violence

soapyhopey's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

I’m not sure what to say about this book. It didn’t really capture me at all but it’s short so I figured I should just finish it. It said what it needed to say it is pages and leaves you feeling as you know all you need to about Sankofa. It’s personally not a story I enjoyed but I didn’t dilute it either. Very eh. It was well written and the narrator for the audiobook does a good job it’s just not personally a story for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

pm_me_book_recs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

This is such a well orchestrated story. 

We follow Sankofa through trials and tribulations regarding her power and the trauma brought with it. This seems to be a tale of character development and acceptance, but turns into something so much more. We get hints of the underlying conspiracy, but seeing and experiencing this through the narrative of young Sankofa, we don't realize or see the full picture until the very end. The closeness to our current state of world is unnerving, rightfully so. 

Moments of high stress, moments of comfort and happy tears, moments of righteous indignation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Blood, Violence, Abandonment, Car accident, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Religious bigotry

sapphicsoilscientist's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

klbreyfogle's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective fast-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

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Death, and Gore