Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Cisnes Selvagens by Jung Chang

9 reviews

sakisreads's review against another edition

I WISH I could have liked this more, especially as it was a gift from my friend, but I put it down and I simply could not pick it back up. I may watch a documentary based on the stories or read it again in a few years' time. Sorry 😫

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Grief, and Colonisation

getyourghosts's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

A story of human nature

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Torture, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Bullying, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and War

carmentxx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

on my cover Mary Wesley writes that ‘it is impossible to exaggerate the important of this book’. in my ignorance i said to my friend, how important can it be? yeah, pretty fucking important. one of the only truthful, harrowing, beyond emotional memoirs to come out of the apocalyptic, cultish nightmare that was 20th century china. how can you give this book anything other than 5 stars? this book took me through every inch of human emotion and poured every detail of the horror- and small amounts of relentless hope- that maoist china enforced. mao was a psychopathic sadist who thrived on horror, destruction, and genocide of his own people. we can never forget. we will not forget. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, War, and Classism

dch7's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Classism

a789's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

josiee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

montyalmoro's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

juliastern__'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Grief

holly_ey's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, and Grief