Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

6 reviews

dreareads_'s review

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.75

This book is everything I wanted HP and Percy Jackson to be and more ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Xenophobia, Violence, Murder, Bullying, Child death, Kidnapping, Death, and Torture

megold12's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

Loved this story. At times I wanted more of the lore or to read more about Sunny’s experience learning about her powers and this world. The ending also felt very fast

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child death, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, and Racism

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Violence, Suicide, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Child death, Murder, Torture, Animal death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping, Sexism, Misogyny, Ableism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Cursing, Excrement, Racial slurs, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Drug use

windsinger's review

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Kidnapping and Torture

bethlovescake's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? N/A

5.0

If I could give this more than 5 stars I would. Words cannot fully describe how much I adored this book. It has the coziness, friendship and magic element of Harry Potter but based in Africa with a mix of African characters. The magic system is really interesting, there are cute moments and and there are tense moments. Even though it is aimed at a young adult target audience I still felt there was so much content and intrigue that as a late 20 something I still fully enjoyed it. This book from start to finish was a pleasure to read and it's been a while for a book to excite me as much as this one did. I wish it could be the first of a multiple book series, I guess you never know. It would make a great movie franchise too.
I will 100% be reading the next book as soon as it arrives in the post.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Torture, and Child death

There is an abusive father too but its more verbal and alluded to than any acts actually being literally described in detail.

candidcopywriter's review

adventurous lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I loved this book! Starting from the fact that it has a black, female main character in Africa, and ending with the fact that the protagonist is albino and hence discriminated against even in her hometown, this book is the epitome of diverse representation. 

That said, when I picked up this book, I hadn't read something I couldn't put down in a long long time. This book? It was over before I realised it! It's a spin on Nigerian folklore, which is fascinating.  I also loved that it was light-hearted and fun, even though there were mentions of a serial killer and, of course, an evil villain. 

It wasn't dark by any means, so I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Death