Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

14 reviews

northernbiblio's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

hannah_and_her_stories's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cancer

dc32's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

note to self to remember chapters: worldbending, desire, holy, anointing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, and Suicide attempt

peachmoni's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, Blood, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Racism

northernzephyr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Dysphoria

Moderate: Transphobia, Violence, and Medical content

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

elizea's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, and Medical content

laurareads87's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

5.0

Dear Senthuran is beautifully written, extraordinarily intimate, and covers a lot of ground: spiritedness + spiritual life, gender, mental health, childhood, career, fame, interpersonal relationships, navigating life amidst humanity.  Extraordinary & like nothing I've ever read before (though those who've read Freshwater will certainly find some familiar content here); also a very difficult read - I'm sure I've forgotten some relevant content warnings.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Body horror, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

byagz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I will read anything and everything by akwaeke emezi. Reading their work—it is so blatantly obvious—they know wtf they’re doing. this memoir made me cry, it was inspiring in moments, full of real shit. You can feel their energy through their words. Straight up powerful. Powerful. this book is covered in highlights. their writing is unlike any other for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Suicide attempt

laurenleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.5

This memoir by Awaeke Emezi is written in letters, as they explore their gender identity, their romantic and sexual partnerships, their  life as an author, and their multiplicity. The epistolary format invites the reader into an intimate space, at times voyeuristic when Emezi gets into some intense detail. Some of these details, mainly relating to suicide and gore, were hard for me to read. I am a strict completionist, but even I had to give up on the titular “Dear Senthuran” letter, which is also rightly titled “Gore.” But I understand, at least to some degree, why it’s important for Emezi to push boundaries. Their life, their embodiment in human form, and in turn, their writing, is all so raw. It’s bursting at the seams with life and intensity. I highly recommend their debut novel, Freshwater, and I especially suggest reading that before this memoir, so you have an understanding of Emezi’s multiplicity and Igbo ontology. It’s all so fascinating to me, and their work is like nothing else I’ve ever read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, Violence, and Medical content

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Fire/Fire injury

maryberthelsen's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, and Suicide attempt