Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

24 reviews

becca_w_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Torture, Violence, and Stalking

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Self harm, and Vomit

Minor: Car accident, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, Excrement, Gun violence, Infertility, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

daisyb33's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Racism, and Sexual violence

peachani's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Gun violence, Infidelity, and Stalking

alexiswiththefreckles's review

emotional hopeful informative tense medium-paced

4.0

It seems like an important book; so much information I wish I would have learned MUCH earlier. However, the threads of white saviorism filled this novel and  that is the only thing I would change. Great science and well written, but I wish it would have been written by a POC author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Cancer, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Racism, and Drug abuse