Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan

20 reviews

beckyjzw's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Rape, and War

booksillremember's review

challenging dark emotional informative 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? No

5.0

An excellent novel - I hope it’ll win this year’s Women’s Prize. I almost couldn’t stop myself from sobbing while reading it on the train. It was a unique reading experience for me - the warmth the characters feel for each other steeped in constant threat, the moral complexity that turns into pure horror. It also depicts the civil war in a very human, nuanced way without expecting any previous knowledge.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Genocide, and War

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Abortion

srilekha's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, War, Sexual violence, and Racism

jmitchell20's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Police brutality, and War

Moderate: Medical trauma

Minor: Rape

nov_ella's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, War, Violence, Grief, Death, Rape, Suicide, and Murder

happyknitter2020's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Absolutely brilliant book. Read as shortlisted for The Women's Prize 2024...think this is the clear winner. The writing is beautiful, strong & clear. Learned so much about the civil war & complex trauma experiments. A definitive 5 star book, will be at the top of my 2024 books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, Death, and Murder

jouljet's review

challenging emotional informative tense slow-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: Death, Grief, Genocide, Body horror, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

katarinabee's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual violence, Grief, War, Medical trauma, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

abbieh95's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

Moderate: Rape

amy_park's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

Haunting and eye-opening to the recent history of Sri Lanka. Going into this book I knew nothing about this country but throughout the narration from a young woman aspiring to be a doctor, we follow her over two decades exploring the real life effects of civil war. This book was very dark and full of grief, witt a powerful punch. I enjoyed the writing style and narration of the young woman throughout. Depiction of grief at the start of the book was so heartfelt, but as the book continues I felt the grief was skimmed across but this might be due to relentless loss the narrator experiences.
I read this via audio, I think the colloquial terminology and dialect was hard to follow at the start which made me a little distant, I did slightly struggle throughout but it did get better. I think on audio alone I would rate 3.5 stars but that was my personal experience.
At the moment I would like to see this shortlisted but I think it could be one of the books that might be in the middle for me as I continue reading the longlist.
That being said I would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Torture and Rape