Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Дівчина, жінка, інакша by Bernardine Evaristo

119 reviews

coco43cl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

brittcoxon's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

Wow. A book that gives you a glimpse into so many lives. A unique look at the intersection of being LGBTQ and black. A complex set of stories, all interconnected, visiting friends and family, current times and historical. Some characters stories are harder to read than others, this book deals with some very difficult topics, ones that are sadly very familiar.
By the end of the book I felt I knew all our characters so well, their lives, influences and ambitions.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment

heather667's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Islamophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Dysphoria, and Classism

Moderate: Deadnaming and Violence

Minor: Eating disorder, Genocide, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, and Colonisation

b_easelbub's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Racism, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Deadnaming and Transphobia

vaneliu26's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Xenophobia, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, and Abandonment

elizabethortiz96's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Didn't enjoy at first but got increasingly engaged after the third chapter. As the book continues, the characters' lives become more interwoven and it gets more engaging. By the end I found it to be a compelling read, incredible how the characters' lives are woven together and a powerful way to illustrate the experiences of different women in the UK. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

ratjoy's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

Absolutely engaging stories of the lives of black women and the "othered" across Britain, wonderfully written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Xenophobia, Grief, Pregnancy, and Classism

Moderate: Dysphoria

Minor: Alcoholism and Deadnaming

naniaunruh's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

It seems like the author often writes about things she has little experience with or doesn’t know enough about. Some of these are just said in a one off sentence and never mentioned again but they bothered me a lot as this is still harmful.

(Anarchists opposing self-governing, a drug addict being healed after 9 days of cold turkey at home detox, anything to do with being trans, a woman lying about s*xual a*sault to get an apartment…)

and tries too many things in the same book without doing any particular topic real justice. 
I understand that this book can have value for Black British women who can feel seen and represented here but i feel like this could have been achieved and better by getting a diverse group of Black British female and trans authors together to write stories instead of having one person to try and do it all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Islamophobia, Gaslighting, and Classism

Minor: Child death and Fatphobia

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Infertility

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Drug abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Xenophobia, Vomit, Islamophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Confinement, Miscarriage, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Dementia, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Incest warning is just in case, for an affair between in-laws.