Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

120 reviews

kaneebli's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Slavery, Rape, Racism, Child death, Xenophobia, Trafficking, and Colonisation

Moderate: Kidnapping, Drug abuse, and Addiction

jojo_'s review against another edition

dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Confinement, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Rape, Slavery, and Torture

Moderate: Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Violence, Physical abuse, Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, War, Xenophobia, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Excrement, Genocide, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Police brutality, and Pregnancy

lucinotlucy's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, Kidnapping, Racism, Sexual content, Colonisation, Confinement, Religious bigotry, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Police brutality, Violence, Child death, Physical abuse, War, Addiction, Child abuse, and Infidelity

franzi_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Kidnapping, Racism, Slavery, and War

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Police brutality

Minor: Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

typegrace's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Physical abuse, Slavery, Sexual assault, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Child death

lucy12345's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Colonisation, Grief, Racial slurs, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Child death, Violence, Trafficking, Torture, Racism, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping, Drug abuse, Drug use, War, and Sexual violence

Minor: Police brutality, Religious bigotry, and Pregnancy

asourceoffiction's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

There is so much to digest and process in this utterly sweeping novel. It's an incredibly intricate and complex story, made up of snapshots of African (and African American) lives through generations. And it's completely brilliant.

In every chapter I found myself stopping frequently to think back on the previous sections, fascinated by the connections and the shared past of these amazing characters. I was desperate to know more, often just as the chapter would finish and we'd move on to the next generation. But wondering what befell each character is one of the poignant parts of this story; it reflects the thousands of stories that never got to be told as lives were torn apart by the slave trade.

This is a novel of histories remembered and respected, and histories trampled and forgotten, and the effects that ripple down through the years. It's beautiful, evocative, devastating, heartwarming and often brutal in its injustice. I was fascinated and uncomfortable in equal measure, but these are such important stories to tell and to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Murder, Racism, Racial slurs, Drug abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual violence and Rape

cantfindmybookmark's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Violence, War, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, and Racism

Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Addiction

alyssagongora's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

I was expecting this book to be like a princess and the pauper story but it was so much better. I would almost relate this to being more like a short story book with a strong through line. I will say by the fourth chapter I put together the ending but it was still worth it and when it happened I was still so happy and excited. It’s a book where nothing really happens, but everything happens it’s just not connected to the same plot. About halfway through the book I read about the author’s background and I feel like it made me appreciate the ending even more so I recommend that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, War, Death of parent, Rape, Sexual violence, Child death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, and Slavery

Moderate: Colonisation, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Vomit, Racism, and Torture

kclark's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Slavery, Trafficking, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, and Confinement

Moderate: Colonisation, Racial slurs, and Kidnapping

Minor: Grief and Death of parent