Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Flickan med sju namn by Hyeonseo Lee, David John

9 reviews

vanesst's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation

Moderate: Police brutality, Grief, and Death of parent

madlyreading's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment

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

sammantha's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Physical abuse, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Trafficking, and 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

brynn_books's review against another edition

4.0

This is not a book that I would have picked up on my own free will. I probably would have glanced over it because I don’t really read a lot of memoirs. But I had to read this book for school and while I don’t typically enjoy having to do work over a book which often makes me like a book less, I really enjoyed this one. 

This book is all about a young girl who escapes from North Korea and how she becomes free. It is also about how a single action from one person can change a person life. Because the authors life was change in this book because a stranger showed kindness to her and was able to help her during a very difficult time in her life. 

I enjoyed reading this book and getting to compare the differences between North Korea and America because they are very different and it was really interesting seeing how these North Koreans talk about the Americans. It was like seeing America through a different lense. 

Sometimes this books did drag a bit and I was bored but the story quickly picked back up and I became obsessed like I hate to know how the story was going to end and whether her mother and brother would ever get free from North Korea. 

This book is sort of persuading me to want to read more memoirs because I enjoyed this one so much but we’ll see. We’ll see...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Murder