Reviews tagging 'Rape'

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

21 reviews

beccalove's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

abbie_'s review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

Heartbreaking portrayal of the brutality of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, as seen through the eyes of a child. It’s occasionally repetitive given the author was a child at the time, so some of her memories likely lack the depth those an adult might have, but seeing the violence through the eyes of such a young girl also serves to amplify. Honestly devastating 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Excrement, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

whatannikareads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

a very important, hard read. definite warnings if you can't read about blood, genocide, murder, but i'm grateful that she didn't sugarcoat the atrocities committed on the cambodian people. we all know genocide and war is bad, but it's books like these that humanize the victims and give us vivid insight into what happened to them. how the effects of war stay with you forever. i hope ung's family members who were murdered have found peace; a book like this is a blessing that exists.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

m4rtt4's review

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Heartbreaking, well-written, emotional, important. ANOTHER CATASTROPHIC CONFLICT OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS DECIDED TO IGNORE smh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Excrement, Vomit, and Religious bigotry

barbiejoon12's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Violence, Murder, War, and Classism

Minor: Rape, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

hotkoolaidpotato's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Excrement and Cannibalism

ivassavi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

(2021 Book#11)
4.5-4.75⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Genocide, Gun violence, Rape, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

yelafeld's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

littlecornerreads's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Rape