Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

172 reviews

cheekmeat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Rape

amgarrido's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I have no words - I have been trying to think of a review that will do this book justice in the two months or so since I finished reading it but can’t.

I continue to be equal parts devastated and enamoured.

I strongly recommend you watch Chimamanda’s interviews about ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ on YouTube if you’d like some additional context, or want to understand how her family’s reality enmeshed with creative licence and imagination to create this novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sammelito's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.75

Interesting book, shedding light on a part of history I was unaware of, as well as giving insight into a culture foreign to me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Rape

Moderate: Racism, Terminal illness, and Murder

thealbapoems's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

5.0

This is an absolute gem of a book. It is heart-wrenching, but I loved every piece of it. This was my first Adichie, and she deserves all the glowing recommendations she has. I will re-read in a couple of years. Cannot recommend enough for people who like historical literary fiction. It has love, familial relationships, class struggle, and it is exquisitely written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Violence

Moderate: Racism and War

the_last_bookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Infidelity and Racial slurs

bookswithcuppatea's review against another edition

challenging sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I enjoyed the multiple first-person narrators who by telling their story tell the story of Biafra. The novel moves between the early Sixties and the late Sixties, rather than a simple linear plot.

I liked the very different personalities of the three narrators, and found all the characters well developed and complex individuals.

Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie is a powerful storyteller, very worth reading!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and War

biographybookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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? No

5.0

I loved hearing from the multiple perspectives, and the author did a great job tying them all together. I enjoyed learning about this war. You really get to hear their thoughts, and it felt like I was growing up along with the characters. I want to read everything by this author!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, and War

charliewoelkchen's review against another edition

emotional tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Rape, Violence, and War

laedyred's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

This book requires an analytic, critical lens of a literature student to get the most out of it. The prose can drag at times but this isn't exactly an action-packed story. The horrors of the Nigerian civil war are on full display. Besides the two women protagonists, I hated every character. Men are truly the scum of the earth. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Sexual harassment, and War

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

dark informative tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

What an incredible book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and War