Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

A Long Way Gone: The True Story Of A Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah

16 reviews

clawtistic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cursing and Vomit

jennswan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Blood, and Vomit

mrsklwilson13's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

5.0

Excellent book. I had to stop several times to process what I was reading on a human level. My heart broke for the author, his family, friends, and nation as I read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

annamwallace66's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

ghost_rider's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

hamletslover's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

shigre's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence

lanid's review against another edition

dark sad tense

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Drug abuse, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

this was absolutely devastating but a story that needed to be told. Beah’s “recovery” and healing were so nice to see. be careful with content warnings!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

rockin_robyn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail