Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

10 reviews

whatmckennareads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Violence, and Murder

greendog95's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Torture, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, and War

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Child death

finnickdeservedbetter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Pregnancy

artisjoke's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Torture, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Blood, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Excrement and Pregnancy

cmisich's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A well written detail of not only the recovery, identification, and aftermath of genocides and the horrors in Argentina and Guatemala. It also covers the impact and hard work of those trying to bring the horror to light, identify the desaparecidos, and the challenges when those responsible still live among them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and War

joannalouise's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

apiologee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

mslaureeslibrary's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Classism

librarymouse's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

Prior to reading this book, I had no idea that the American-backed genocide of Mayans in Guatemala, nor the Nazi-affiliated disappearings in Argentina ever happened. In this book, Alexa Hagerty does a beautiful and poignant job exploring the atrocities and her experience exhuming the mass graves left in their wake at a human level. She breaks down the walls built up in many western minds between the body and the person they were; the stories they still have left to tell, exploring how that mental block helps and hinders in archeological and anthropological study. The respect and interest Hagerty pays to working to understand things unknown to and outside the boundaries of consideration of much of western study, like that of Maya cosmovision, shows there dedication to both her work and the people she has come to care for - both living and dead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism