Reviews tagging 'Antisemitism'

Saras nøkkel by Tatiana de Rosnay

23 reviews

daralexandria's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Antisemitism, Grief, and Deportation

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Genocide and War

amor12's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Hate crime, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

allisonplus's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Genocide and Antisemitism

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Confinement

Minor: Miscarriage and Car accident

violetgarlends's review against another edition

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Antisemitism, Abortion, and War

serious topics are handled exceedingly poorly, and more often than not seem to be used primarily for shock value.

uselesspirateraven's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad slow-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, and War

katie0528's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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? No

4.25

This book was devestating. Alternating POVs between 1942 and 2002, this story explores the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of Jews in Paris in July 1942 and French attitudes about it at the 60th anniversary. Sarah, a young Jewish girl living with her brother and her parents, has her home invaded and she and her parents are arrested by the French police. Thinking she'll be back soon, she locks her brother in a hidden cabinet. Meanwhile, in 2002, American reporter Julia is researching a story of French indifference to their complicity to the murder of thousands of people while juggling a failing marriage and dark family secrets. It's a devestating book, as Holocaust books tend to be, but Sarah's POV wraps up about 2/3 of the way through the book. The last section is about the fallout of Julia's investigation and while it was interesting, it was less compelling than Sarah's story or even her investigation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Racism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Medical content, Abortion, and Pregnancy

perth_is's review against another edition

emotional medium-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Antisemitism

chloepfrimmer's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I enjoyed the story overall, but I do wish it focused more on Sarah’s POV. I felt the author went into a little too much random detail about Julia’s life, and the ending was weird and unnecessary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Miscarriage, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Infertility, Car accident, and Pregnancy

smm122132's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Antisemitism

14silja's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Outing, War, and Deportation