Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

128 reviews

kimveach's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was a quirky and strange story, but I enjoyed it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

eed8's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Medical content

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Vomit

Minor: Colonisation, War

aileron's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Grief

Minor: Animal death, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Cannibalism, Colonisation, War

greatestheights's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Surprisingly tender and even more surprisingly brutal — and impossible to put down. I'll be thinking about this one for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Colonisation

Minor: Cannibalism

saltycoffee's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Cannibalism, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Genocide, Slavery

booksemmahasread's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Racism, Kidnapping, Murder

Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Colonisation

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny 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: Yes

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I adore this book.  A British-Cambodian government translator finds herself working as a sort of mentor to a historical time traveler as part of an experimental program.  Her subject—Graham Gore—would have died amid a doomed Arctic expedition from which no man returned had he not been pulled from the year 1847.  She befriends him, along with a ragtag crew of other “expats,” while keeping secret most details about her job, which, unbeknownst to her, has been plagued by corruption from the start.  

This book explores what happens when what you thought was right turns out to be very wrong, and Bradley accomplishes this in a way that is funny, surprising, and profoundly moving.  The slow burn love story crackles with chemistry which surpasses anything I’ve read before, and, most importantly, humanizes the beloved.  The Ministry of Time is counted among my few most favorite books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting

Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Genocide, Alcohol, Colonisation

loveinpanels's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Murder

Moderate: Racism, Cannibalism, Colonisation, War

Minor: Genocide