Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Catching Teller Crow by Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Ambelin Kwaymullina

8 reviews

tinypotato21's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Rape, Child death, Medical content, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Racism, Violence, Death, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

lwylde14's review

hopeful inspiring reflective slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Rape, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Child death

Minor: Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Car accident

rockyroadbutch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

Incredible and emotional. Powerful. Using stories and colors, metaphors and realism to tap into core emotional experiences. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

Moderate: Rape, Colonisation, Violence, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Most of the story is told in metaphor, so very little is explicit. Fire and death are the most explicit.

emily_mh's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? No

4.5

The mystery storyline of this book was great and kept the plot moving, but I also loved that the mystery wasn’t the point of the book. Its significance lay in its exposure of the brutality of colonisation, and its beautiful and heartbreaking exploration of grief. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Colonisation, Child abuse, Death, Grief, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Racism, Gore, Body horror, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Medical content, Drug use, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Ableism, Bullying, Police brutality, Forced institutionalization, and Self harm

Colourism, the Stolen Generations, police corruption

viccro's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

3.75

I didn't put all the pieces together until they were revealed, but it wasn't quite satisfying as a mystery; I felt as though I hadn't quite been given all of the pieces to the puzzle in a such a way that I *could* have ever solved it.

I really appreciated the Aboriginal lore and storytelling tradition though! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Confinement, Child abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, Racism, Physical abuse, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Death

ashleycmms's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Blood, Car accident, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

sophiesmallhands's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

 

This was easily read in one sitting but by golly does it pack a punch! This is the type of book we need to be studying at school in Australia. 

 

What begins as a simple investigation into a deadly fire (as simple as it can be when the detective’s dead daughter is around in ghost form to help him), ends up uncovering a harrowing tale of survival and long-held grief. The plot also begins the scratch the surface of the tragedy that is the Stolen Generation in Australia, whereby numerous Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families to try and assimilate them in “white society”. 

 

Much of the book is told in prose, which I admittedly stay away from a lot of the time, but now I’m starting to think that that has been a mistake. The prose is lyrical, easy to read and the use of allegory to veil to a terrible truth is simply superb. 

 

Story-telling and family is at the heart of this book, and oh, what a mighty heart it has. 

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Rape, Murder, and Violence

beautifulpaxielreads's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Child death, Death, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, and Violence