Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

5 reviews

flygonjinn's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racial slurs, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Miscarriage and Suicide

Minor: Murder and Infidelity

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

The emotions of this story hit me a lot harder than I expected them to. The timing seems poignant, with the 2024 election involving the same bullhorn as Willa was so horrified by in the year we spent with her family.

The themes of past and future and love and grief were simply done but quite moving. The characters were so real.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Racism, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexism, Bullying, Death of parent, Gun violence, Death, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Xenophobia, Abortion, Suicide, Racism, Islamophobia, Animal death, Infidelity, Alcohol, and Medical content

Donald Trump is there in the background. The concept of homelessness is an ever present looming and real threat.

fkshg8465's review against another edition

emotional informative slow-paced

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

2.0

Parts were good. Parts dragged on. Overall, the good parts were better than the boring parts

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Slavery, and Infidelity

siebensommer's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

as an only child, willa could hear people‘s complaints about their siblings only as a primal form of bragging. they had a tribe. they belonged. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Murder, Animal death, Death, and Terminal illness

apersonfromflorida's review

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity and Suicide