Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman

2 reviews

magikskydad's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Chronic illness, Drug use, Gore, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

This book is a historical work that describes the history of poisoning. It is incredibly informative. Sometimes it is gory and traffic but it’s totally worth the read if your interested in the history of royalty, or the darker and stranger working of medicine.

j_squaredd's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, and Violence