Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

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

5 reviews

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

this book was a very hard thing to read. it includes almost every content warning you can imagine. I can't believe i did not learn about this in any of my schooling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

alyssatuininga's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Another heartbreakingly sad memoir, this one about a young girl who survived the Cambodian genocide.   I enjoyed learning about this time period in Cambodia but this was a really rough one. As always I have a hard time reviewing memoirs but this one was well-written, easy to follow, and informative. I did find it being set in the present tense a little off-pointing and found some of the mature insight weird in a child's voice and perspective. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, 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

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

coltons1996's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault