Reviews tagging 'Death'

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

13 reviews

emka918's review against another edition

emotional informative slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, and Death

philosopher_kj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, War, Classism, Colonisation, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Death, Physical abuse, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Miscarriage, and Xenophobia

Minor: Excrement, Abortion, and Drug use

alexhaydon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Gore, Torture, War, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Death, Death of parent, Confinement, and Adult/minor relationship

josiee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Classism, Miscarriage, Confinement, Cannibalism, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Suicide attempt, War, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Murder, Pregnancy, Torture, Rape, Police brutality, and Violence

montyalmoro's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Medical trauma, Ableism, Abortion, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Murder, Police brutality, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, War, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Terminal illness, Violence, and Xenophobia

schnarlie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

A deeply fascinating book that helped me understand the history and politics of China while at the same time making me feel deeply with the described people. Highly recommend this to anyone Chinese or interested in China, but also might be interesting to those who aren't either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Murder, War, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Classism, and Miscarriage

jrdns's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.75

A classic for a reason!! Beautifully written to the point that it feels like fiction, but really it’s just credit to Jung Chang’s skills as a writer. Amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Misogyny, and Confinement

nixusiai's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

this is just incredible. it shows a personal perspective of china's history, and jung chang writes it so well. i felt sad and angry at the tragedy that follows her family, but it also gives hope that things can and will change. idk i highly recommend

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, and Physical abuse

francestea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

Fascinating and amazing true story about a very recent time in Chinese history. If you’re intimidated by the size of this tome the audiobook is also quite good. A few parts lagged a bit but it still warrants a 5 star rating. If you’re looking for fiction on similar topics I recommend Madeleine Tien’s Do Not Say We Have Nothing and Amy Tan’s Kitchen Gods Wife and Joy Luck Club.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, and Police brutality

Moderate: Cannibalism, Confinement, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide

Starvation, famine, forced labour

temsu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders