Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Dead Girls by Selva Almada

20 reviews

leoimj's review

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

the author has wonderful insights into the murderers she is writing about and supplements the stories with personal antidotes and her experiences from writing. you get a real understanding of the experiences of these women and how prevalent violence against women and feminicide is. This could have very easily been exploitive but it doesn't read that way, the other is reflective and well informed. the story isn't just about the victims but also herself and her own life growing up affected by the constant stories of dead girls. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Murder

gracews_library's review

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Murder

amalvarez0313's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, and Murder

mafemoreno's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Physical abuse, Child death, Death, Sexism, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape

paloma_sanchezh's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Murder, and Sexual assault

megmoore123's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Stalking, Body horror, Genocide, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Infidelity, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

yanulya's review

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Rape

thenovelsphere's review

dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.5

This book goes into the femicides of 3 girls and women in Argentina during the 80s. It’s a very heavy but important book that shows just how common violence against women is. While telling the stories of the 3 victims, Almada also highlights other stories of unsolved femicides and guides us through her journey of writing the book (interviews with families, witnesses, suspects etc). I feel like adding in some more information about the causes/theory of femicide and how the justice system plays a part in downplaying how serious this epidemic is would’ve also been informative. But overall, this book is a must read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Child death, and Misogyny

lauradvb's review

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, and Misogyny

sarafornes's review against another edition

informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Violence