Reviews tagging 'Blood'

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win WWII by Sonia Purnell

4 reviews

junglejelly's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

After hearing vaguely about Virginia Hall, I was so glad to have found this book.

It's incredibly detailed with Hall's years in occupied France, sometimes a little too detailed.

Most of the writing is incredibly captivating and Purnell does well to weave in the emotions. Other times it's quite dry.

Overall, a good read and would definitely recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Blood, Violence, Death, and Police brutality

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Suicide, Cancer, Deportation, and Sexism

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Sexism, Police brutality, Misogyny, Mass/school shootings, Lesbophobia, Kidnapping, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, Excrement, Drug use, Deportation, Death, Death of parent, Cursing, Classism, Child death, Biphobia, Ableism, Xenophobia, Racism, War, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Chronic illness, Antisemitism, Sexual content, Rape, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Child abuse, Body horror, Blood, Sexual assault, Murder, Medical content, and Gore

Excellent book, but do not read if you’re in a bad headspace. Extremely open and frank about WWII atrocities in France, including critiques of the approach/strategy of Allied forces. It’s very jarring in the last chapter to have a pointedly neutral tone re: CIA & US military activity in the Middle East in more recent years, after no-punches-pulled attitude to all western powers including the US during WWII itself. This inconsistency is the only thing that prevented me from giving it 5 stars.

dukeofkel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Blood, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Violence, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Antisemitism, Confinement, Death, Torture, Deportation, Drug use, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, and Sexual assault

eire2011's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

 Virginia Hall was a young woman determined to have adventures, not be stuck at the same secretarial job indefinitely and paved the way for so many women along with being a big help to winning WWII.

I very much enjoyed this story and am so glad that her achievements have been brought to light so that she can get the recognition she deserves!

Trigger warnings: war, death of a parent, torture, concentration camps, imprisonment, ptsd, war wounds, hunting accident resulting in loss of a limb, discrimination 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, and Genocide