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In de schaduw van de berg by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

6 reviews

hankatcol's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, and Death of parent

ajone540's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Suicide, Excrement, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

msagerber's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Car accident

There are probably more content warnings, but basically it is tough stuff! That being said, I am changed from reading this and so glad I pushed through, it is so incredibly powerful.

theamandablanco's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, Trafficking, Death of parent, and Classism

196books's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicide, Trafficking, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Rape

Minor: Sexism

thecandlelightlibrary's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

Thank you to Henry Holt and Company/Macmillan Publishing Group for sending me an ARC of this title. I received this copy for free and this review contains my honest opinions. 

 

In the Shadow of the Mountain is exactly what it says it is: a memoir of courage. I didn’t fully understand what that meant when I first picked up this book, and even though the author and I share few life experiences, I felt an overwhelming sense of kinship while reading. Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is the first Peruvian woman to have summited Everest, and in this memoir she weaves together her story summiting Everest with her childhood in Peru. Memoirs don’t usually impact me much: I enjoy reading them when I pick them up, but often I don’t think about them after I’m finished. In the Shadow of the Mountain, however, will stick with me for a very long time. 

 

Silvia has an ability to retell gripping events with vulnerability and compassion and I couldn’t stop reading. Summiting Everest firmly remains off my adventure list, but I did enjoy reading about it and I will definitely be looking for future books by this author. While there are graphic depictions of abuse throughout this memoir - both of the abuse the author endured and that which other women have shared with her - there are overarching messages of healing and breaking cycles of abuse. Above all, and one of the messages I found most powerful, your trauma is not the same as your identity. 

 

I did have some difficulty with the passage of time in a few sections, and I wish there were pictures. While there might be pictures in the final version, I did spend a lot of time looking things up so I could better visualize them. However, after searching for examples of the Everest ladder crossings…maybe pictures are unnecessary (there were many moments during the Everest parts that were absolute nope moments for me, and the ladder crossings were definitely one). 

 

Thank you again to the publisher for sending me a free ARC of this title. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Trafficking

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Excrement, Kidnapping, Murder, and Sexual harassment