Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Conexión by Neal Shusterman

4 reviews

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

dododenise's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

4.25

I kept thinking about how to review this last book in the series and I didn’t come to any solid conclusions. I think there is still a lot I need to process about the series to really form a rounded opinion.  This series said so much, I feel like the series, therefore, deserves a big review. However, I do not feel up for actually writing that as good and thoughtful as I want it to be. So I’ll just drop some smaller thoughts instead. 

What still stands is that I love the concept. 
Lev turned from a character I didn’t care about into one of the most interesting. 
The plot did not do a lot of new things this book. I would have liked some more different takes on the way things were done, without necessarily introducing new ideas or concepts. Just something newer to round off the story. 
I hated the casual assault and taking away some of the girls’ bodily autonomy when it comes to sexual relations. I know it was done by horrible people but the book did not deal with it more critically than that.
I liked how all the pieces came together in the end, building a satisfactory conclusion.

Especially how something that we said earlier in the series, about how it will take a lot of random events to eventually actually change things, did indeed turn out to be the solution.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Violence, Police brutality, and Medical content

kissfist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.75

I have never dreaded the ending of a book so much, and been so rewarded by the author for enduring it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

daphrose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Suicide, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Gore, Gun violence, and Police brutality