Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

5 reviews

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Fatphobia, Trafficking, and Pregnancy

kenzers8's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, and Car accident

Minor: Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

maddiebusick's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Dementia, and Alcohol

Minor: Colonisation

maple_dusk's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

My favorite quotes from this book:

"DNA tests can tell you what tribe you're from?"
"Shhh." Fingers to lips again.
He turns to me. Awfully close. I move a step away and keep talking in a low voice.
"You're thinking of those bullshit ancestry tests where you mail your spit in a test tube and they say you're eighteen percent Native American. Those tests are imperfect. They generalize results to geographic regions, not countries or tribes or bands. People take those tests and think they can enroll in a tribe. It doesn't work like that." (Pg. 198)

"Love means wanting you to have a good life, even if I'm not in it. And your love for me? It should be that strong, so you want that for me, too." (pg. 477)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, and Excrement

Minor: Infidelity and Pregnancy

Victim blaming (graphic)

creationwing's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This review is based on the audiobook.

This book is a coming of age story that reminds us that sometimes wisdom comes in the harshest of ways. I appreciated the very real depictions of how

grief relating to death and "lost ones"

manifests in different ways for different people.

While knowledge of histories such as residential schools (or, as the book calls it, "boarding schools") and the Sixties Scoop is not necessary, it's clear that the history informs the actions of many characters, including Daunis and her elders. I highly recommend looking into these histories before or as you are reading this book.

Overall, I think it was a well-written book with important themes. Boulley did a good job of leaving hints and foreshadowing as the book went along. My only real issues were with pacing and the ending. It was hard at times to know if months, days, or merely hours had passed in the narrative. This may have been an issue with listening by audiobook, however. As for the ending... it felt like it was merely there to tie loose ends in the plot, like the ending screen in a documentary stating what happened after filming ended. The knowledge was satisfying, but the way it was written wasn't.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Daunis is 18 years old

at the start of the book, which means this book really skirts the line of adult/minor relationship, in my opinion

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