Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

79 reviews

vanessagrausam's review

adventurous emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Police brutality, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual assault and Blood

lmcarr0314's review

dark sad 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? No

3.0

This book was okay, The story itself was good. The multiple POVs in this story were not my favorite and were a little confusing at times for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Animal cruelty, War, and Animal death

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, and Death of parent

besidemyshelf's review against another edition

adventurous informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Racism, and Slavery

emjrey's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

An incredible story based around famous racehorse- covering his life just before the US civil war, and later looking back at his life through a story centering researchers and art. It does not shy away from talking about racism and slavery during the historical period but also in the modern setting.
 Thought this was fantastic 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Animal cruelty

kmcfall's review against another edition

informative inspiring 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Sexual assault

alainab113's review

adventurous reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Animal death, Racial slurs, and Slavery

graceelllen12's review

informative sad medium-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

Moderate: Slavery, Racism, and Violence

marioosa517's review

challenging emotional reflective 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Racism, Police brutality, Slavery, Animal death, Gun violence, and Infidelity

Moderate: War, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Xenophobia, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Medical content

Minor: Islamophobia, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, and Car accident

chickaboogawah's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring 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? No

5.0

I loved this book by Geraldine Brooks. She is such a great author, and she skillfully wove the various storylines together. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Police brutality, Murder, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Trafficking, Colonisation, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Slavery, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, Death, Death of parent, and Excrement

geminireader's review

challenging emotional tense slow-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

Belongs in the curriculum of education. Incredible and deeply emotional read. It is obvious the author put significant thought and research into this novel and handles the story with such care while also sending a powerful message. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Slavery, Racism, and Hate crime

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Animal death, and Animal cruelty