Reviews tagging 'Rape'

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

13 reviews

mhbloss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Child abuse

Moderate: Suicide, Rape, Homophobia, Trafficking, and Alcoholism

Minor: Mental illness and Infidelity

msagerber's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual violence, Death, Vomit, Alcoholism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Mental illness, Racism, Classism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Rape, Sexual harassment, Grief, Homophobia, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Trafficking

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Car accident

There are probably more content warnings, but basically it is tough stuff! That being said, I am changed from reading this and so glad I pushed through, it is so incredibly powerful.

theamandablanco's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Addiction, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Trafficking, Vomit, Classism, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, and Sexual content

196books's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Suicide, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Rape

Minor: Sexism

mjscooke's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

In this memoir Silvia Vasquez-Lavado weaves the tail of her expedition to climb My. Everest as a backdrop to exploring the other challenges in her life and her journey to healing and self-confidence. Much like climbing mountains her story is both challenging, adventurous and at times quite dark whilst also being inspiring & hopeful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Death, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Addiction

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Drug use

ellieturnsthepage's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, and Domestic abuse

megans_book_shelf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

mariakureads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

3.0

I came into this book hoping to listen to what drove the author to make this journey to Mount Everest.
What I didn't expect was so much of her private life to be woven into that drive as I was hoping, thanks to the blurb, to read more about the climb itself - teh adventure of getting to the summit, the risks, the people involved, the climb itself.

What I got has a non-linear memoir that had more to do with her family, the abuse at a hands of a family friend that she was gaslight to believe was the start of a life with him, the supression of that and eventually her sexuality, her alcoholism, and the dangers of it, which she ties into different parts of climbing.

I appreciate what the author did and how this narrative was written, for it's well done, but it's also more than I expected for what I wanted to hear. It's well written and I can see the praise of it but I was hoping for more of her talking about the Everest climb itself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

michalie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Suicide, Sexual assault, Rape, Trafficking, and Pedophilia

allthebooks36's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Trafficking, Alcoholism, Suicide, Cancer, Domestic abuse, and Rape