Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

La casa en el mar más azul. Edición especial: Edición especial con cantos tintados by TJ Klune, Carlos Abreu Fetter

26 reviews

scmiller's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Torture, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism

audriew9's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful 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

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This book was lovely the perfect magical book with a heart warming tale about found family and love

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Racism, Colonisation

itsmaryssae's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Colonisation

arshiya_amreen90786's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racism, Colonisation

Minor: Homophobia

zephyrfgray's review against another edition

0.5

dark slow-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

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A good book but a terrible inspiration/creation story. Please read Kas' review on Goodreads on this book for more details. 

I wish I hadn't bought this book on Audible,,, smh. I will not be reading any of this author's work in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Colonisation

jesromas's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous lighthearted slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Complicated

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God this was so disappointing. The cast of characters and the setting were so heartwarming and exciting. But the white saviour narrative pretty much ruined the whole thing. I found the protagonist grating and the political messaging in this book was so weak, especially considering this was supposedly “inspired” by the Sixties Scoop. It felt like if Blindside was a comedic fantasy book with a bad-fanfiction-y romance shoehorned in. The fact that there’s anything redeemable about this story is a testament to how strong the side characters and setting were. And even the strength of the side characters was compromised by their use as props in the character development of the protagonist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment

Moderate: Racism, Colonisation

Minor: Confinement

honeywine's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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: Complicated

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One of the best, most hopeful books I’ve read in a while. I read it in only a few days, staying up too late in order to finish. 

I marked genocide as a content warning because

this book deals heavily with the assimilation of minority (magic) children into the world of the colonizer

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Colonisation

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment

allybw's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Fatphobia, Colonisation, Classism

inke410's review against another edition

2.25

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing 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: Yes

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This other said he was inspired by the Indian residential school system and the Indigenous people imprisoned there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Racism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Colonisation

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia

Moderate: Colonisation

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury