Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor

10 reviews

trippalli's review

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

pagesandnights's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Animal death

bexi's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Death, Violence, Child abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Car accident, Child death, and Death of parent

Minor: Misogyny, Body shaming, Blood, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

pineapplesurvivor's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

keen's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Car accident, Violence, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Animal death, Murder, and Chronic illness

Minor: Abandonment and Terminal illness

mreads's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Antisemitism and Car accident

Minor: Child abuse

editorbrenna's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Death

ofbooksandechos's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Later she would understand that it wasn't just a pain. It was a beginning. And this beginning annihilated all that came before it.

I highly recommend the audiobook, it sounds like a folktale and the writing is beautiful.

content warnings for child abuse, death, grief, gun violence, brief description of menstruations, animal death, descriptions of malaria and its clinical course, violence

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Car accident

spiritedfaraway's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

Everything starts with a meteor shower. A young girl sees something that falls from the stars and what she finds, or what is given to her, comes with great power and a great price. Now wandering with only a small red fox by her side, Sankofa is looking for what was taken from her. As she walks from town to town word by month spreads out even faster and soon Sankofa is wrapped in mythology and legend. 

"People whisper things like, "She's the adopted child of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own." Three was truth in every single one of the stories."

An absolutely engrossing coming of age story with Sankofa looking for purpose and trying to find a sense of self. Amazing character and plot development, but also an exploration of grief, isolation, and trauma. This is a book that is mysterious and vivid and gripping and is so very hard to put down. I truly hope we get more of Sankofa in future books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Animal death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Sexism, and Self harm

Minor: Cancer and Terminal illness

There is also death of a sibling and mention of the covid pandemic.

bookishdi's review

adventurous reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, and Death of parent