164 reviews for:

Yonder

Jabari Asim

4.2 AVERAGE

heidithebrave's review

5.0

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One of the best books I've read in a while. A powerful novel about slavery and freedom, love and friendship.

chloelovestoread's review

4.5

dark emotional sad slow-paced

saltytiger's review

3.5

challenging dark hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

moon_verma's review

4.25

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-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

donnalisa's review

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

whodatro's review

5.0

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I enjoyed the characters and book, excluding hearing the horrific instances of cruelty perpetrated by slave owners, their wives (the thieves) and others.

Narrated by some well known voices, the book is told from the POV of the stolen; William, Cato, Margaret, and Pandora. Afraid to believe and love after all they've lost, a traveling pastor comes for a visit and tells them about freedom and how to get there.

This was like watching the TV show Underground and had some of the fantasy elements of The Water Dancer.

maninderkaur's review

4.0

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This is a really good book but probably a bit of a difficult read for some. Its topics are very intense and some may not find it the most engaging of books, but the themes are so important to acknowledge—it brings to life a time that wasn’t all that long ago, and you see ideologies that were somehow believed in. The characters are really well-developed, William in particular was my favourite because I liked the way he debated what exactly he believed in. All of the different ‘groups’ like the People or Swing Low were really interesting too. I think it would’ve been cool to explore William becoming Greene’s foreman a little more, though. It would’ve been interesting if he was forced to maintain a similar role to Cupid and essentially turn against his own people for Greene. Otherwise, though, it was a really good book and an interesting read.

murdalannd's review against another edition

2.25

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

iannome's review

3.75

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

mikuish's review

5.0

emotional fast-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