Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada

30 reviews

good_names_dont_exist's review

adventurous hopeful informative fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

acutefauna's review

challenging dark informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

stacylaughs's review

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Violence

tangleroot_eli's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape and Alcohol

rhollister's review

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Police brutality, and Sexual assault

spookily's review

hopeful informative inspiring tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Police brutality

Moderate: Sexual harassment, War, and Bullying

Minor: Alcohol, Rape, and Sexism

nisanre's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

This book was excellent and it's hard not to pull parallels to the US today. The line that resonated with me the most is "do they ban books because they see the danger in their authors or because they see themselves in the villains?" I had a difficult time following all of the characters, but I think that has more to do with the fact that I read it in so many sittings than any skill of the author and creators. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Rape

A character alludes to being raped. Depicts direct violence, but the nature of the black & white images & drawing style soften the trigger.

bananabeard812's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

amandamiller430's review

dark hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual violence

prunusnucipersica's review

challenging informative inspiring tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Death

Minor: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

The minor stuff is alluded to in text but not explicitly spelled out. Major content warnings noted given that this is about student protests during a totalitarian regime in South Korea in the 1980s.