Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

23 reviews

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.25

Ocean Vuong has a beautiful way of twisting horrible things into beautiful words and making the horrible things seem not so horrible and making the beautiful things not so beautiful. I think I’ll have to sit with this one for a while and revisit to really delve into it, but a soulful read for the time being. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Hate crime, and War

Moderate: Homophobia

evakonic's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Grief, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, and War

gabriella_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.25

I think the poetry was well-written but some of the topic matter wasn’t really for me. I went in thinking this was more of a series of poems tying into family struggles and grief but I found a lot of it lewd and about other things. That’s fine but just not what I expected.

I wish I read this after On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous instead

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, War, Violence, Homophobia, and Domestic abuse

moonpeach's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, War, and Violence

Minor: Racial slurs

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, and Gun violence

teaganodders's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

A beautiful, deeply passionate collection of poetry that I have a sneaking suspicion I'm just not smart enough to comprehend fully. For that reason, I give it a 3.75. Some of my favorite lines;

He dies at the party where everyone laughs and all you want to do is go into the kitchen and make seven omelets before burning down the house. (pg 40)

Maybe we pray on our knees because god only listens when we're this close to the devil (49)

Don't be afraid, the gunfire is only the sound of people trying to live a little longer and failing. (82)

and so what if my feathers are burning, I never asked for flight. (84)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and War

Minor: Child abuse, Murder, and Gun violence

wrenny03's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I can't quite form coherent thoughts on this right now but,,,,, devotion vs destruction in regards to love,,,,, horrors of war,,, water as a motif,,,,, the sheer emotion of this book has me going a little insane

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Child death

maximauve's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Rape, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Violence, and War

rhysecakes's review

challenging informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Cannibalism

kianga_black's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Racism, Child abuse, Death, Religious bigotry, and War