Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

68 reviews

feebles640's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, War, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Child death, Pregnancy, Homophobia, and Hate crime

Minor: Bullying and Murder

katiewhocanread's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, War, Homophobia, Hate crime, Death of parent, and Mental illness

mwaskom's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

beautiful. I learned so much about Cyprus and it was so engaging. Though it is rooted in many specific places and times, it's truly about the experiences, connections, and desires we all have. Only reason it's not a 5 star read is that the tree metaphors and very heavy handed, like this book was made for a 10th grade English essay about symbolism (and would be an amazing assigned reading) but I thought it would benefit from a little more subtlety. 🌳

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Xenophobia, Child death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Murder, Colonisation, Pregnancy, Islamophobia, and Hate crime

Minor: Abortion

sylda's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

2.5

If I had to summarize this book in one word, it would have to be inconsistent. It flutters between "subtext is for cowards and "that came out of nowhere" and the different time periods that are explored are sometimes really interesting and sometimes boring.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Hate crime, and Homophobia

mel_s_bookshelf's review against another edition

informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Hate crime, Death, Death of parent, War, Violence, and Abortion

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Sexism, Alcohol, Pregnancy, and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual content

bouebooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Death of parent, Hate crime, Violence, and War

mermaidstears's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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

4.5

I really loved this book. The writing is gorgeous and the story itself is completely compelling. I throughly enjoyed the amount of nature featured in this and the narration from the fig tree were some of my favourite parts. Not too mention the amount of loveable characters and the love they have between their own relationships and their relationships with each other. This taught me so much about Cyprus, Greek and Turkish Cypriots and the conflict and history as well as the culture. Highly recommend 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death of parent, War, Murder, Animal death, Grief, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Hate crime, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Torture, and Suicide

meggles's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Child death, Murder, Hate crime, and Homophobia

Minor: Pregnancy and Suicide

s3lin's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Death, Homophobia, and War

Moderate: Abortion and Alcoholism

leabhar_love's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Violence, Hate crime, Animal death, and Homophobia

Minor: Suicide