Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor

14 reviews

almostqualified's review

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

pm_me_book_recs's review

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

pyromastyx's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, Death of parent, and Child death

rokinjaguar's review against another edition

dark reflective 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? No

4.0

Very sad book about a girl's extraterrestrial experience and journey from normal girl to creature of a folk tale. The audiobook is voiced quite well, and I shed a few tears at one point. A bit too sad for my usual taste, but I liked the main character and the setting was so interesting and unique.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Death of parent

Minor: Blood and Gun violence

montereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Car accident

Moderate: Fatphobia

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Child death, Physical abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Animal death, and Car accident

Moderate: Body horror, Gun violence, Cancer, and Blood

Minor: Sexual violence and Kidnapping

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

bi_n_large's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Hate crime, and Grief

Minor: Violence and Gun violence

bluejayreads's review

dark emotional sad slow-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

4.5

The back cover of this book is kind of misleading, but I don't really blame it because it would be hard to write a description of what happens in this book that doesn't sound incredibly boring. There is no greater purpose for Sankofa. But this book isn't about that. It's not really about a plot at all. It's about Sankofa, a girl who can kill with a thought and can't always control it and whom everyone fears because of it. 

This story is, overwhelmingly, a tragedy. It is the story of Sankofa, a child, a young child, losing everything and everyone she knew and cared about again and again and again. The first time this happens she is seven, when she loses her family and her town and her name and everything she ever knew in one moment of disaster. With no home, no name, and no one to help her, she begins chasing something that was stolen from her. 

All technology dies under her touch, but she doesn't even need touch to kill a human. Stories of her spread, and people fear her, and many hate what they fear. She is alone except for her fox companion. Every single refuge she finds is eventually destroyed or she is driven away by those who fear her power of death and hate what they fear. And as I read, all I could think was, She is a child. She is a child. She is seven, eight, nine, ten years old. She is too young for your hate and fear. She does not want to kill you. She is a child who has lost everything too many times to count. Have compassion. 

But of course, there are children her age and younger in our real world also who face anger and fear and hatred from adults for something they cannot control and did not choose. 

This is not a happy book. It isn't long, but the emotions it contains are large. This is a small story of big feelings, grief and loss and pain and being a child alone in the world and hated for something you are that you did not ask for, did not choose, and can't stop being. It is beautiful and vivid and intense and engrossing despite the lack of discernable plot and, above all else, heartbreaking. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Blood and Gun violence