Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

7 reviews

elizabethfaustina's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark informative inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really enjoyed this! I think it’s underrated, as I’ve always heard that it’s long, slow, and boring, but I found the plot to be really interesting and the characters really awesome. And I love Dickens’s writing, especially with the occasional clever quips and the way he illustrates someone’s character so well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy

Nothing is inappropriate, but should be for a more mature audience, good for high school.

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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At first, the regular repetition of phrases was a bit jarring, but then it grew on me.  There was also a lull in the middle where it dragged but the last third of the book was positively action packed with everything coming to fruition.

Cry count: 2

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Classism

beth_m_house's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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It was one of the more difficult books I've read in terms of the vast disregard for human life and some of the references were from an age that I am not familiar so I had to use cliff notes, especially in the beginning. The book was slow paced for me up until I got quite involved with the love story of the main couple.  It really picked up in Book 3.  I love the show down in Chapter 14 of Book three -- well worth the 460 pages leading up to it. Overall I liked it though it a difficult read.  It was my first Dickens novel and I'm glad I read it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Murder

avsdhpn's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Mental illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, War

quills4days's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Murder, War, Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment

Minor: Death of parent, Alcohol

bookfairyesmee's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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3,5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide

Minor: Mental illness, Murder, Cultural appropriation, War

madinhoa's review against another edition

1.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Very hard to read. Everything is confusing and like a puzzle you have to put together with missing pieces. There are a lot of names that are all very similar and characters that are hard to tell apart. The only interesting thing that happens is in the last 100 pages. I would recommend looking up the spark notes summary and watching it rather than reading the book — it is way harder to read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, War