Reviews tagging 'Death'

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

23 reviews

lanid's review against another edition

dark sad tense

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

halirose's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Trafficking, Genocide, War, and Death

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

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

shontellereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.0

I think the content is as harrowing as it is interesting but the writing really didn't do this memoir justice, unfortunately.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, War, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, Violence, Grief, and Gun violence

jaidenmarie11's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

I think I’ll always give memoirs a 5 star unless it or the author sucks but fortunately that was not the case. This book was so harrowing and made me truly reflect on the ideals of morality and innocence. I will never forget some of the scenes from this book and it’s absolutely heartbreaking that a child had to experience this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Gore, War, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Blood, Murder, Addiction, Cursing, and Rape

chrisp189's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Drug abuse, Drug use, Child death, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Death

nevertheless_she_reads's review against another edition

Graphic descriptive effects of war - death, injury, mutilation and I was in the mood for something more light-hearted

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, War, and Child death

shannaw's review against another edition

4.0

Such a tragic accounting of the horrors of war told by the author from his own life experience as a child soldier in a civil war. It's definitely sobering to realize that he, along with so many other children, were living these horrors during my own childhood/teenage years. I can't even imagine. 4 stars for being well written, almost reads like a recollection of a dream, lyrical...which is a stark contrast to the brutal subject matter that enveloped his formative years.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, War, and Death

literaryloquacity's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Kidnapping, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Drug abuse, Incest, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Torture