Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Overstory by Richard Powers

42 reviews

prettyfunctional's review

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Police brutality, Violence, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Grief, Death of parent, Confinement, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Body horror

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Car accident and Sexual content

queertrash's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: War and Police brutality

hassettreads's review

challenging emotional inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

This follows multiple storylines and weaves them in with history and ecology- I loved it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Violence

booksandmo's review against another edition

hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Suicide

Minor: Death of parent, Dementia, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

lenoradavis's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Currently my favorite book I have ever read. Many of the characters resonated with my identity as a scientist, environmentalist, and nature and tree lover. I enjoyed the way the stories start as separate and then intertwine together. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Violence, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Terminal illness

weeta's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

I saw Richard Powers speak about this title a few years back and it’s been on my TBR pile since. He has a gift for weaving information into story. This slow but sturdy world will pull you towards learning more about trees and leave you searching for something to fill the gap that is left once you finish the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Ableism, Suicide, Violence, Infidelity, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

kingweirdo's review

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Suicide

Moderate: Violence

emakay's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Infidelity, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Violence

katiechu's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.0

I think this book is worth a read and has some very beautiful writing, but for me it didn't deliver as much impact as I was expecting, particularly at the ending. Additionally, I didn't really find most of the characters as compelling as I think they were intended to be, and while the action was interesting, I felt disconnected from it as a reader because I wasn't invested in the characters.

I also felt like the environmental message falls a bit flat as it seems to suggest that the best thing that people can do for the environment is simply die, and thus does not require any action of the reader.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Violence and Death

Minor: Police brutality

elspeth56's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

This was a really really beautiful book, with a monumental feel to it. I wish I'd been in a better headspace to read it. I wouldn't say it was slow, but it's a heavy powerful book that interweaves many stories and requires your focus, which I don't have a lot of right now!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, and Ableism