Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

9 reviews

czoltak's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Antisemitism, Racism, Sexual harassment, and Slavery

maregred's review against another edition

informative mysterious sad tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Death, and Slavery

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Sexual content

chloebear21's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Slavery, and Suicide

gretchenmiller's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

kc_onmybookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Child death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Slavery, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

Minor: War, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

kristinesreads's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Blood, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

deckledlens's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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? No

4.25

The author's development of the setting is masterful. Immediately, you feel as if you're a student at Harvard with Cady, investigating the death of your sick brother. This book is heavy but fascinating. and I couldn't put it down. As the characters (read: ghosts) come alive before your eyes, you need to know more and more about them. While some areas of the plot felt disconnected or slow, you never once wanted to leave the characters until you learned the answer. I also loved how this book gave a voice to several whose are lost in the whitewashed history of ivy league schools. The author's note at the end explains more; definitely read it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Suicide

Moderate: Mental illness and Slavery

ktdakotareads's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

2.5

A lot of elements were thrown into the story that were sometimes hard to distinguish from one another. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Toxic relationship and Slavery

delight's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Slavery