Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Flickan med sju namn by Hyeonseo Lee, David John

9 reviews

daniellelikesbooks's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking and Abandonment

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, and Deportation

niquee3317's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Classism, and Deportation

angelofmusic317's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

4.5

Interesting story of a North Korean defector who not only escaped on her own but also got her family out. She shares the challenges, dangers, and struggles of leaving her country of birth to seek a different and better life somewhere else. This book moves quickly and is an interesting listen/read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Violence, War, and Deportation

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Police brutality, Trafficking, Death of parent, and Alcohol

siennakt30's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, War, and Deportation

lyd41's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

Minor: Abortion

jelenabts7's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

nataliebootlah's review against another edition

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

5.0

“My curiosity had always been greater than my fear - not a good trait to have in North Korea, where fear keeps your senses sharp and helps you stay alive.” 

What an incredible, eye-opening telling of the atrocities that happened and continue to happen in North Korea to this day. Hyeonseo Lee is just one brave person who, quite literally, risked it all as she defected from North Korea in search of a new life. 

Yet her story is not the norm — her family held a high status, known as songbun, and lived a relatively comfortable life. It was curiosity and rebellion that first sent her across the river to China and only the realization that she had been fed lies about North Korea being the best country in the world that kept her there.  

Hyeonseo does not shy away from how neighboring countries and the world view North Korea, North Korean defectors, and the challenges they face if and when they reach freedom. She was a young woman who fought for her freedom, her family’s freedom, and lived to tell the world their story. 

The Girl With Seven Names is a must read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Grief, and Murder

mondovertigo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Medical content, Trafficking, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, Excrement, Cannibalism, and War

shadereads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death and Torture