Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

3 reviews

cassimiranda's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Rape, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Trafficking, War, Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Gaslighting

atsundarsingh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Exemplary writing. The Troubles are such a hard thing to write about, precisely because the story of the violence is still such a live issue. Still, this is a tightly coiled and deftly rendered dig into some of that hard history. Since it's such recent history, it was also really cool to be able to look up some of the obits and editorials that he discusses online, and know they were only a quick search away. Finally, and this is historian brain speaking, the absolutely essential nature of oral history projects especially to peace and reconciliation efforts is on full display here, and so is history's present-day relevance. A very well-deserved award winner, and likely to send me on another full anti-empire rabbit hole of books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Grief, Medical trauma, Addiction, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Police brutality, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Blood, Colonisation, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Religious bigotry, Violence, War, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Torture, and Toxic relationship

exmareadastra's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Torture, Self harm, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Death, Confinement, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Incest, and Vomit