Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

5 reviews

mrgerten's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

gendavis's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Rape, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, and War

princessreadsalot's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Well researched. This is a hard read because of the brutality, but the story of these female resistance fighters is so incredible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Rape, Antisemitism, Medical content, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

mcrystal1000's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This book did an amazing job telling a story that isn't frequently told. The writing was good and kept me wanting to know what happens next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

bethbarron's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense

4.0

These are the stories of Jewish women resistance fighters during WWII who organized uprisings and fought against the Nazis, bombed trains, and so much more. I kept expecting this to end, thinking things like, "these women have already been through so much," and, "there's no way they can pull this off," but I was wrong. I found myself continually surprised, shocked, devastated, and in awe of their chutzpah, even *after* the war had ended. I can think of no better read than this during Women's History Month. Judy Batalion's research and writing are incredible. This is a long one and it will break your heart, but it is so worth your time.

Thanks to @netgalley and @harperaudio for the chance to read this early. Release date is April 6. You'll want to preorder this! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, and Religious bigotry