Reviews tagging 'Violence'

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

18 reviews

alexandrias_library's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Death of parent, War, and Death

Moderate: Rape, Medical trauma, and Deportation

Minor: Excrement, Vomit, and Cannibalism

beccalove's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

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

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. 

---

Content Warnings

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

nancydavis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I’ve been reading this book alongside my journey through Cambodia, during which I have visited sites such as the Killing Fields and S-21. 
Needless to say this is a very difficult yet extremely important read. 
I hope that this book, alongside the genocidal centres in Phnom Penh, will continue to be used as seminal resources to help ensure that crimes such as those committed during the Khmer Rouge regime never happen in any part of the world again.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, War, Violence, and Genocide

Minor: Suicide

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 

---

Content Warnings

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

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.

---

Content Warnings

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

magneto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

---

Content Warnings

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

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

---

Content Warnings

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

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

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

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

barbiejoon12's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Child death

Moderate: Classism, Murder, War, Genocide, Violence, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Pedophilia

Minor: Rape, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, and Cannibalism