Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

48 reviews

kaypringle's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

This graphic novel was an absolutely beautiful and brilliant way to explain culture, especially in immigrant families where there may be a disconnect in language/experiences, sexuality, and the feelings of coming of age! I absolutely love and recommend and especially enjoyed the

Vietnamese rendition of fairy tales and truly loved the quote from Tiến’s auntie “It’s an old, old story. Details change. Things change. And now this story is ours. Yours and mine”.

It’s a prime and magnificent example of 
 how literature and storytelling should be, something for everyone!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia and Violence

belle2008's review

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, and Outing

Moderate: War and Violence

ninahuynh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

Such a nostalgic book. Growing up, I had watched and heard renditions of  Tấm Cám . This is definitely a different version from what I have heard and watched before in my childhood, but has that same element of gore in the end that Disney would not approve of. I found it warm how Helen changed the ending of The Little Mermaid to segue into showing Tiến how she supports and loves him. I love the áo dài  in Tấm Cám. Represent!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Homophobia, Murder, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Animal death

Minor: Religious bigotry

natcortes's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Animal death, and Blood

sherlockstan98's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

mattyb's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Religious bigotry, and Homophobia

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Violence, Murder, and Gore

Minor: Cannibalism and Death of parent

maple_dove's review

emotional hopeful relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

I have to say--this is one of the most relaxing books I've read in a while (it's YA, no less!). Yet, somehow, it manages to beautifully discuss things like immigration, war (briefly), cultural barriers, homophobia, etc.

The art is beautiful and eye-catching. I loved the character designs too! The ending is fantastic and wraps up the whole book so well.

No matter what, I know I can't do this book justice, so I'm just going to encourage you to read it.

Favorite Quote:

"<My Vietnamese is weakening, every day. I'm changing.
My past and present selves speak two different languages.
It feels like I died on that boat. And I'm still stuck in the middle of the ocean.
Far away from my mother . . .
. . . and far away from my son.
I'm afraid Tiến doesn't think he can tell me things.
I'm sure he can feel it. I know I do.
And I wish it wasn't that way.

Did my mother feel that way? Did she feel like this all those years I was away?>"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Child abuse

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Gore, Homophobia, and War

Minor: Physical abuse, Violence, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, Death, and Grief

Child marriage (Minor)

rickireadss's review against another edition

4.0

this was a cute little graphic novel! i will say the narrative was a little difficult to follow at first because i wasn’t sure who was speaking nor where it was going, but overall i enjoyed it. 

⚠️: homophobia, grief, death, death of parent, religious bigotry, blood, cannibalism, animal cruelty

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Homophobia

Moderate: Cannibalism, Blood, Violence, Death, Death of parent, and Animal cruelty

eloise__'s review

emotional hopeful reflective sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

so good cried so much though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Child abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, War, Racism, Death, Homophobia, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Cannibalism

drudeger's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Animal death, Homophobia, and Child abuse