Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Het Vlammende kruis by Diana Gabaldon

23 reviews

kataka093's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Slavery, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content and Colonisation

Minor: Cursing

kb33's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Grief, and Colonisation

Moderate: Death, Sexism, Blood, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Grief, and War

kimveach's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Another wonderful book in the Outlander series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexual content, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

sytaylor's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Medical content, War, and Injury/Injury detail

linnylionheart's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Ableism, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Rape, Terminal illness, and Religious bigotry

kpg244's review against another edition

relaxing slow-paced

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

1.0

This felt like reading someone’s diary. There would chapters that just went over the characters day to day life with one chapter with something interesting to break them up. It took me months to finish this book because it was so slow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Slavery

Moderate: Torture, Violence, and Medical content

flyintothestorm's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? No

4.5

Este libro es más pausado que los anteriores, y eso me venido bien, que estoy leyendo los libros seguidos y este ha sido un descanso.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, and Murder

sschmidt1300's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

devlev7's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

I’ve been loving reading the Outlander series. The books are slow but worth it for the adventure and the descriptive, thorough language. In this one, I particularly enjoyed the lengthy details of day to day life on Fraser’s Ridge. It made me want to learn to make beeswax candles and dye clothes and

make syringes out of snake fangs.

I will say, I was wary of the way Gabaldon would approach writing about Native folks and enslaved people in 18th century North Carolina, and I have finished the book still feeling like I’m not sure what I feel about that aspect. It certainly wasn’t the worst approach it could’ve been. She neither ignored the obvious issues of racism and colonization altogether, nor condoned them. But some of the language and plot points were a bit tactless in my opinion. The non-white characters lacked depth or true feature in the plot, with momentary exceptions. The violence of slavery and colonization were lightly addressed, but not witnessed by any of the characters, nor were they much discussed.

I was also a bit disturbed in the evolution of the relationship between Roger and Brianna following their marriage. Brianna is such a dynamic, strong character, and it seemed hard to believe she would defer so much to her husband, or allow others to go to him for final decisions about their family, even when being in the 1700s.

All in all though, I still very much enjoyed the book, the plot twists, the tender moments, and appreciate the depth of research that must have gone into writing it. Looking forward to the next book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and War

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

infjill's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail