Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

14 reviews

michaelion's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

GET OUT OF MY HEAD! Had another spiritual experience reading this. DIdn't black out this time though. I almost couldn't finish it but I also couldn't dnf it. Like this book could be my Bible. EMEZI twin GET OUT OF MY BRAIN!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Medical content, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Excrement, Car accident, and Outing

northernbiblio's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

hannah_and_her_stories's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cancer

elizea's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, and Medical content

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

Beautiful. Inspiring. Infuriating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Gore, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Infidelity, Racism, and Cannibalism

Minor: Sexual assault

imrereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

I don't know where to begin with such a powerful memoir. Author memoirs are one of my favourite types of books, but I don't think I've ever read a memoir quite like this. It felt groundbreaking. Word view shifting. Oh so intimate. I won't ever forget this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Cannibalism, and Suicide attempt

ominous_teapot's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

laurenleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.5

This memoir by Awaeke Emezi is written in letters, as they explore their gender identity, their romantic and sexual partnerships, their  life as an author, and their multiplicity. The epistolary format invites the reader into an intimate space, at times voyeuristic when Emezi gets into some intense detail. Some of these details, mainly relating to suicide and gore, were hard for me to read. I am a strict completionist, but even I had to give up on the titular “Dear Senthuran” letter, which is also rightly titled “Gore.” But I understand, at least to some degree, why it’s important for Emezi to push boundaries. Their life, their embodiment in human form, and in turn, their writing, is all so raw. It’s bursting at the seams with life and intensity. I highly recommend their debut novel, Freshwater, and I especially suggest reading that before this memoir, so you have an understanding of Emezi’s multiplicity and Igbo ontology. It’s all so fascinating to me, and their work is like nothing else I’ve ever read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, Violence, and Medical content

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Fire/Fire injury

maryberthelsen's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, and Suicide attempt

merin_aran's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail