Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

Illegal - Die Geschichte einer Flucht by Eoin Colfer

10 reviews

thechroniclesofsiania's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Child death, Grief, Death, and Trafficking

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Pregnancy and Miscarriage

dafni's review against another edition

emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Trafficking, and Murder

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

Minor: War and Miscarriage

mlottermoser's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Heart breaking story of two brothers trying to make their way to Europe for a better life. A middle grade graphic novel that doesn’t shy away from the dangers these hopeful people endure. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking and Death

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Alcoholism, Murder, Death of parent, Gun violence, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

cheye13's review against another edition

challenging sad fast-paced

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

2.0

Aside from the age of the characters, this didn't have the impact I had hoped it would. I found the additional materials like the firsthand account and the authors' notes more evocative and informative than the main story. Still, a very well crafted work in general.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Trafficking

Moderate: Deportation

Minor: Violence and Alcoholism

also depictions of a life-threatening illness and drowning

robinks's review against another edition

informative sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

The story and characters are gripping, especially “Journey” at the end. While a work of fiction, there is a lot to be learned about the difficulties and trauma migrants face in journeying to a new place. However, it doesn’t feel right to me that it was written and illustrated by 3 white men…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Confinement, Deportation, War, Trafficking, Alcoholism, and Miscarriage

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Trafficking, Child death, Abandonment, Confinement, Death, Grief, Murder, and Violence

thereaderfriend's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Grief, Trafficking, and Bullying

Minor: Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Medical content

lalu's review against another edition

informative sad

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

2.75

Maybe graphic novels aren't for me...
I couldn't connect with the characters at all, the things they said were written in a rather unnatural way with simple, short and emotionless sentences. It was almost like reading a Wikipedia article as a graphic novel: interesting, but written in a very sober way.
It made me grateful for the life I live as a European and it pains me to think about all the refugees who to this day risk (and way too often lose) their lives for the chance to a better and safer live - but the characters of the story made me feel nothing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Trafficking

Minor: Medical content

bookishandlegal's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

This graphic novel is mandatory reading! It is SO good and such a good depiction of what immigrants go through as they seek out a better place to live. The graphics are beautiful and I loved that the story switched between the current journey (on the boat to Europe) and the journey Ebo took from Ghana to find his brother. Ebo was such a sweet character and just always a ray of light and hope even when things looked pretty hopeless for him and his friends. This book was heartbreaking, but also so important for people to read and understand.  Seriously, amazing, go read this asap. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Trafficking, War, and Violence

tinytrashqueen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-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? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment and Bullying

Minor: Death of parent and Alcoholism