Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Lost City of Z: a legendary British explorer's deadly quest to uncover the secrets of the Amazon by David Grann

3 reviews

girrllie's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

2.0

Soooo boring reading about someone else’s obsession with an explorer and everything the author is reading about him. My parents lived in the Congo in the 60s and had many stories about botflies and my own mother actually had elephantitis at one point. They are both long passed away so the disease and pestilence parts felt a little like home. The personality conflicts were interesting too. And the information about the tribes. But those four things don’t make a whole book. I felt like I was slogging through the book like someone slogging through the jungle. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

ezulc's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

cait's review against another edition

informative mysterious slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism