Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

The Women by Kristin Hannah

5 reviews

jvantland's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This was a hard read. I felt so beat down by the middle I had to put it down for while. The end helped weave together a lot of the loose ends and questions, but the jump 7 years into the future was a little disorienting after being SO in each moment up until then. 

It was really powerful to read this, especially the second half about the student and veteran protests, while watching a similar state violence unfold against student protests against Palestinian genocide in the US this week.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Drug use, Grief, War, Medical content, Drug abuse, Colonisation, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, and Violence

jesstaurant's review against another edition

emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Death, Medical content, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Child death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-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

4.5

It never occurred to me that women would be erased from the Vietnam War because my mother was a nurse there. She was the head of her MASH unit and collected a pension for her service until she died. I guess the difference for her was that she served in the South Korean army. So this book evoked in me pride for her service, questions about her, sadness that we never really talked about, and sadness and shock over how the US nurses were treated (who did they think were doing all the nursing duties at a time when male nurses were so rare?????). A full circle story. A couple of loose ends tied too nearly for me but otherwise, an excellent telling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Miscarriage, Cancer, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Self harm, War, Colonisation, Death, Body shaming, Addiction, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Blood, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Forced institutionalization

maggieparedesauthor's review

adventurous dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Infidelity, War, Classism, Medical trauma, Murder, Suicide, Violence, Cultural appropriation, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Blood, Genocide, Colonisation, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Cursing, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Child death, Racism, Stalking, Gun violence, and Vomit

mdavis26's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Death, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Car accident, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Torture, Violence, Addiction, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Medical trauma, Confinement, Grief, War, and Miscarriage