Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

5 reviews

hoops_literary_library_life's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing

puggreader's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

anniefwrites's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Another informative, moving graphic memoir of John Lewis’s life. I especially appreciated how he and the other authors lifted up the stories of women in the movement in all three books because they are so often ignored. The imagery is not for the faint of heart, but it is really the next best thing for a generation who didn’t grow up watching the movement on television or participating in it directly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cursing

nrogers_1030's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

ehmannky's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is by far the best of this trilogy of graphic memoirs, and this is high praise given that I think that the other two are some of the best that the genre has produced. There is so much death and violence and pain in this one, so much suffering, and yet Lewis, his co-author, and illustrator do not frame it as a story of despair, but as a story of hope and triumph over the forces of white supremacy and white liberal complacency that would create such a monstrous system that was and is systemic white supremacy in America. It's an incredibly moving work, and I had to stop multiple times to just let the words and the art sink in. It's so much to take in, and I cannot recommend it enough. 

I read the first of this series before much of the social unrest of 2020 occurred, and it struck me now as I finish it just how unfair it is that Lewis never got to rest. That he spent his final years battling the same white supremacists and their ilk that physically beat him as a young man. And how unfair it is that we're creating a world where Black people and their allies continually have to stand up to this. It makes me want to go out and push for a better world, even as it becomes clear that it won't happen within my lifetime. Which is what I hope John Lewis would have wanted. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, and Murder

Minor: Sexism