Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Earl Lee, Kathleen DeGrave

4 reviews

jessthanthree's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Death of parent, Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Gore, Racism, Antisemitism, Grief, Pregnancy, Animal death, Child death, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Sexual assault, Sexism, Child abuse, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Rape, Violence, and Excrement

Minor: Cannibalism and Confinement

summboo's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Intense book that causes you to reflect on capitalist systems

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Death of parent

Moderate: Trafficking, Sexual assault, Child death, Abandonment, and Grief

Minor: Grief

The book is intense I’m it’s descriptions of poverty and the food industry in the early 1900s. Parts of the book are unsettling and difficult to read because they are trauma spawning events for the main character

roadki77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

The book that caused major legislation regarding the food industry's health standards. Also communist propaganda, but that only comes in at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Trafficking, Xenophobia, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, and Eating disorder

ande_thomas's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Grief

Minor: Trafficking and Drug use