Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

187 reviews

alyxinthestars's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical content

bookwyrmknits's review against another edition

This book has a lot of important and interesting information in it, and is a part of our history that isn't generally taught in schools. (Or at least, wasn't when and where I went to school.) However, it's pretty repetitive and rather graphic with descriptions of the radiation damage, and I'm not interested in continuing.

I also have to be honest and say that part of the reason for the DNF is the narration. For the most part I didn't have any issues with the narration. However, as the tension ramped up in the second third of the book, the narrator started to lengthen some of the vowels and deepen her voice at the end of sentences. It feels like this was done for dramatic impact but all it did was annoy me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death

aech's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood, Grief, and Classism

revon's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Terminal illness

terrik_409's review

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

queenkath32's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Medical content, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

thunderthighs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

This story is told in 3 parts, the first part is very information forward and reads like a college paper with little emotional draw and very repetitive information because there are so many women who were affected. The 2nd part is where the story picks up and starts to be more of a narrative of what happened. For this reason this book really is an extraordinary recounting of what happened and the neglagence that these women faced. Highly recommend this read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Miscarriage

mmccombs's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

This almost felt like reading a horror novel, it was absolutely harrowing. I thought this was very propulsive and I loved that this was mostly told from the direct perspectives of the women and families involved. Sometimes the writing felt a bit cheesy and repetitive, but on the whole I couldn’t put this book down. The descriptions of each woman’s slow and painful deaths were sometimes a bit much but did capture just how bonkers it is that these people were literally dissolving and somehow these corporations were still able to wriggle out of responsibility. Absolutely maddening, describing how profit and capitalism will always take precedence over the wellbeing of workers, clearly showing how labor rights are disability rights and vice versa. If you want to be equally upset and informed, this is the book for you!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death, Sexism, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

skoot's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

3.0

Great prose. Personally wish it went into more detail about legal and court proceedings but what was included was very good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, and Classism

gisreading's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad

5.0

This book tears your heart apart for these poor women while leaving you amazed by their bravery, and frustrates you to no end at the selfish, greedy people that will do anything for money. It's entirely one thing to hear about the radium girls in passing as you grow up, hearing only the surface of what they suffered in their short lives. It's another to read in detail the horrifying way these women's lives ended, and the way so many people knew and ignored the dangers they knew radium possesses. It's yet another terrifying example of what money and power can do to cause innocent people their lives, while others prosper and turn a blind eye. These women will be forever loved and adored for all they have done for others, as well as celebrated for their amazing fight for justice. Rest easy, girls.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness and Miscarriage