Reviews tagging 'Child death'

First They Killed My Father: Film tie-in by Loung Ung

29 reviews

beccalove's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

nikafreeka's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.75

An incredibly powerful book. I can’t believe that millions of people had similar experiences. I only took of 1/4 of a point because it was upsetting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War

lauramiserez's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I always struggle with rating memoirs because what business do I have judging how someone else captures their own story, especially one as traumatic as this one. That said, I usually end up rating memoirs based on how likely it is I’ll still think of the story in 5, 15, or 50 years. Using that metric, I’d give this book 6 stars if Goodreads would allow it. This book is not very long, but it manages to say so much about the human cost of ideological war. We look at genocide in terms of numbers, and this book shows how much humanity and devastation accompanies each single death that contributes to those large numbers. I think it should be required reading for anyone who hasn’t had to live through this kind of instability and violence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

abbie_'s review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

Heartbreaking portrayal of the brutality of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, as seen through the eyes of a child. It’s occasionally repetitive given the author was a child at the time, so some of her memories likely lack the depth those an adult might have, but seeing the violence through the eyes of such a young girl also serves to amplify. Honestly devastating 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Excrement, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

whatannikareads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

a very important, hard read. definite warnings if you can't read about blood, genocide, murder, but i'm grateful that she didn't sugarcoat the atrocities committed on the cambodian people. we all know genocide and war is bad, but it's books like these that humanize the victims and give us vivid insight into what happened to them. how the effects of war stay with you forever. i hope ung's family members who were murdered have found peace; a book like this is a blessing that exists.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

bennificial's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

It's a really good, really sad book. I cannot say that I enjoyed it but I am happy to have read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Death of parent, and War

magneto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

m4rtt4's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Heartbreaking, well-written, emotional, important. ANOTHER CATASTROPHIC CONFLICT OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS DECIDED TO IGNORE smh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

ob_liv_ious's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Grief, and Death of parent

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Excrement, Vomit, and Religious bigotry