Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Girls That Never Die by Safia Elhillo

9 reviews

readingwithkaitlyn's review

sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Misogyny

Moderate: Grief, Rape, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Racism

Minor: Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Blood, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Animal death

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

3.75

To reread

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Rape, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Stalking, Sexual harassment, and Racism

poolofbees's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book is filled with such profound vulnerability and honesty. Elhillo is unafraid to speak on the violence and pain that is inflicted on women, many of whom are later ignored. She talks about not having the words to talk about it. She does not try to offer solutions to these problems, but there is the persistent and running stream throughout the book of female closeness, friendship, love, the way we protect each other. I felt incredibly seen by this book. I was given new ways to think about those things that are most difficult to think about. I felt like Elhillo imparted a little piece of her own resilience into this book, like we could all be girls who never die, like we all will be girls who never die. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

xread_write_repeatx's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Islamophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Incest

hmetwade's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Murder, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

Minor: Stalking

libbyferg99's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Misogyny

mixedreader's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

ktkeps's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Islamophobia, Sexual harassment, and Medical trauma

kari_f's review

dark hopeful reflective sad

4.0

“see her: little cousin, little sister, sparrow-boned, alive. i want to turn to firewood everything that hurts her. i do not have the verbs for what i need for her. i needed them myself & was not protected. i want to make ash of this world that did not protect us & from that nourished soil sprout one better.”

Raw and personal, beautiful and haunting, this collection of poems was hard to read and important to read. Generations of trauma and shame are shared through these lines, right alongside years of friendship and belonging and kinship. 

There is rage, there is despair. There is also hope for healing for the girls that never die, for those who weren’t protected and had everything in the world thrown at them, for those who persisted anyway.

Thanks so much to NetGalley and Random House for the advanced copy. Most of all, thanks to the author for sharing your stories and the stories of those who trusted you with them. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Violence, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and Misogyny