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nighthawk702's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Violence
lorraine19's review against another edition
3.5
However, I feel like the formatting was completely distracting and inconsistent. There were also points it was difficult to follow the stories or it seemed like transitions were missing. It's hard to say how much of this was the writer vs the translators though. (Leaning towards it being translation as there are 2 distinct styles and I have previously read articles by this author.)
Overall, I felt like having the book formatted as short stories or a collection of interviews/articles rather than a novel would have made it much easier to follow. But it does not take away from the importance of topics discussed and the very real, yet dystopian, stories of people living in Russia.
Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Bullying, Mass/school shootings, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Forced institutionalization, War, Confinement, Death, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Child death, Classism, Gore, Grief, Murder, and Sexism
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Abortion, Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Cursing, and Hate crime
nikita_barsukov's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abortion, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Death, Suicide, War, Child abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, and Addiction