Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

6 reviews

clairebartholomew549's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This book is brutal, gory, and completely depressing. It chronicles the aggressive settlement of native lands by white people, the political violence the tribes enacted in response and also sua sponte, and the slow vanishing of native culture. It's compulsively readable - Gwynne goes back and forth between decades, smartly telling history through the lens of different actors - and incredibly informative. This is a period of U.S. history that I don't know much about (which is obviously intentional by the education system) and it was all very interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Addiction

jeddicat's review against another edition

Graphic with horrific violence against women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

krysophylax's review

adventurous dark informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

This is not something I would normally choose to read, but I gave it a chance as I enjoy Native American culture. It was about as captivating and informative as I can imagine a book on this topic could be. Impressive, enlightening and highly recommended. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Rape, and Sexual assault

thecirclek's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

A detailed look at the decimation of the Native American population and lands in the 1800s. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Torture

owlgal369's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I greatly enjoyed this book. The author presented the dark story of an empire's end in a nuanced and sensitive fashion, but was not afraid to give the reader the full details of the horrors both sides suffered during the long war between white settlers and the Comanche nation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Murder

folieassdeux's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Grief