Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

5 reviews

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

loisro's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War

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

888lcv's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense fast-paced

4.25

loved analyzing this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and War

freg's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail