Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

15 reviews

kah296's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

I thought this book was PHENOMENAL. In my opinion, it was better than The Overstory. The writing and characters were just gorgeous and it was well-paced. My only complaint is that the end felt a bit rushed. Even so, I’ll be thinking about this book for a long time and will be recommending it to friends and family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Grief, Death of parent, Animal death, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Car accident and Ableism

laurenmvmills's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, Death, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Genocide, Medical content, Bullying, and Car accident

erinwolf1997's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Ableism and Car accident

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, and Self harm

annasophie's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.5

2.5 stars – Oof I don’t know what to make of this book. Let me start by saying when Power’s writing is good, it is amazing. Overall however, this was mostly..boring? I find his characters usually very interesting but here they started to annoy me. I didn’t care for any of them, which for a predominantly character driven book is obviously bad; and having fictional, albeit very very obvious, stand-ins for Greta Thunberg and the President-who-should-not-be-named and other social media ‘influencers’ did not help. If you write a 13 year old Swiss climate activist at least give her a Swiss name not a Scandinavian one; how more obvious can you be? I found most of this book very annoying because everything seemed to repeat itself, even down to the sentences; different, but interchangeable throughout the entire length of the book. Maybe it would’ve been better off as a short story or maybe it’s just me being a picky reader but this really did not work for me.

A neutral observation: never did I think I would read the words ‘tofu scramble’ and ‘black salt to nutritional yeast ratio’ in a Powers novel, or any novel for that matter, but there’s a first for everything I guess so that’s fun. Btw, tofu scramble w/ black salt and nutritional yeast is delicious actually but make sure to add some onion, cumin, turmeric and ginger, splash of lemon juice and a tiny bit of sweetener too. Pro tip, I promise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Death

Minor: Suicide, Self harm, and Violence

emmclaay's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, and Self harm