Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi

8 reviews

aishakare's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

aliireads's review against another edition

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

5.0

Great book! Well-written and very relevant and informative. Ahed tells her story and the story of her family/people. The book is sad and hard to read at times, but also inspiring with the stories of resistance and resilience. I would recommend this one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

jouljet's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Islamophobia, Grief, Medical trauma, Colonisation, and War

kimreads14's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad

Tamimi's story is one of thousands that you will hear if you take the time to listen to Palestinian voices. Her recounting of what she went through during her teenage years inside Israeli prison system. 

Ahed is truly a freedom fighter and the fact that she willingly shared her traumatic experience is incredible. She is inspiring and I truly hope that anyone who reads or listens to this book will realize what Palestinian children have to endure daily. 🍉 🫒

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Sexism, Torture, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

c_peach's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this book. I historically have a difficult time following current world and historical events and feeling like I have a good grasp on them (hello white American privilege I know). As someone who has been horrified by the genoc*de currently being committed to the Palestinian people, this book did an amazing job capturing the life of Ahed and the trauma Palestinians endure, while also including information on history of Israel’s occupation, apartheid, and treatment of Palestinians - especially in recent years. This book made a difficult subject approachable for me and I will continue learning more.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Torture, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, and Colonisation

Minor: Blood and Vomit

kalmia31's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cancer, Slavery, Vomit, Antisemitism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

shay43geek's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Blood, and Colonisation

Moderate: Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and War

redthistle's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and War