Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

98 reviews

gisreading's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad

5.0

This book tears your heart apart for these poor women while leaving you amazed by their bravery, and frustrates you to no end at the selfish, greedy people that will do anything for money. It's entirely one thing to hear about the radium girls in passing as you grow up, hearing only the surface of what they suffered in their short lives. It's another to read in detail the horrifying way these women's lives ended, and the way so many people knew and ignored the dangers they knew radium possesses. It's yet another terrifying example of what money and power can do to cause innocent people their lives, while others prosper and turn a blind eye. These women will be forever loved and adored for all they have done for others, as well as celebrated for their amazing fight for justice. Rest easy, girls.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness and Miscarriage

badger_ti_robespierre's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Should be required reading 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexism, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

ms_sarah621's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

Absolutely amazing book. Such a powerful and interesting story. I highly recommend this book and have nothing bad to say about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

boomwormbrittany's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

The Radium Girls follows the absolutely unbelievable story of the girls who were poisoned by the companies they worked for and their fight for justice.
This book is an absolutely heartbreaking and inspiring story about a group of women's fight to try to hold companies accountable for the poisoning that they suffered due to the companies lying to them about the harmful effects of radium. This book was an absolutely heartbreaking and wild ride to read.
Watching these women having to not only suffer to find a diagnosis and be misdiagnosed was already heartbreaking. But also watching them having to fight tooth and nail to just be able to get any sort of compensation and help from the companies was absolutely rage inducing. The way these companies lied about these women and their conditions and what they were suffering while they were sitting there, in pain and dying, was absolutely mind blowing.
This book is such an important book to read because it's not just about the women's pain. It's about their resilience and how they worked together despite the odds to try to do right by others who would suffer like them.
I think this is a very important book to read and it should be read by everyone. The way Kate Moore handled this was so deft and well done. She showed so much respect and care for these women and their stories. I teared up in her descriptions and she showed their courage so well. I cannot recommend this book enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Miscarriage

likeagilmoregirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Miscarriage, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

smcaput2's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Infertility and Grief

emsxrenee's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

leligavi's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

This was my first nonfiction I've read of my own accord. Not for school or required reading, just because I wanted to know the story. I'm so grateful I read it. The impact that these women, lawyers, and doctors all contributed to this world is just amazing. Their tenacity is admirable and above all, I could just see the Lord bringing justice to these girls and giving them the strength to continue on. He led them to people that fought for them and for the truth and that is just so powerful. What wonderful faith and strength these girls exhibited and I hope to be just a fraction of what they were. Such a powerful read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

tatdine's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

Be prepared to cry uncontrollably. It’s an unflinching story of betrayal and deceit that led the pain and death of countless women. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and War

abz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

This book is a moving story of the radium girls of the 1920s and 30s. It was written in such a way that it read like a story more than true facts but it was true. Although I already knew the high-level story of this book, there were many shocking moments. I did annotate this book and I think that allowed me to move slower through the book and hopefully absorb more of the information. It was an insane read. And I would recommend it to anyone that has any inkling that this topic might be interesting to them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, and Sexism