Reviews tagging 'War'

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall

8 reviews

avisreadsandreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Absolutely essential reading 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Murder, Violence, Colonisation, Death, Slavery, Racism, Suicide, Grief, Misogyny, War, and Trafficking

Moderate: Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Rape

achay91's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Slavery, Death, and Racism

Moderate: War

Minor: Rape

masterofmusix's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

This book tells an incredible story. It provides a visual depiction of what the slave trade actually looked like. It describes the story of the authors journey to find the truth about her ancestors past. It is as dark and haunting as it is illuminating. Rebecca Hall is a hero for writing this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, War, Gun violence, Racism, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Slavery, Blood, Genocide, and Sexual harassment

rachbake's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Sexual assault, Sexism, Racism, Slavery, Kidnapping, Violence, Trafficking, and Gun violence

solenodon's review

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Violence and War

Minor: Sexual violence

blood_egg's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

This one is definitely a hard read but worth it. Every page is packed with information on an often unseen aspect of history as well as killer art. I’ve come back to this book several times in order to dig deeper on a piece of information that Hall brings up. Which if a book can do that is a win in my mind. I didn’t give it a full marking because I want more! Hall’s authorial voice is strong especially paired with the drawings. I hope she publishes more!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, War, Rape, Trafficking, and Violence

This book never shows acts of violence against the enslaved people who it centers, but in dealing with the history of slave revolts it obviously discusses the traumas that enslaved people had to face at the hands of their enslavers. So while you read about atrocities, they are never shown or discussed in a detailed way. Lots of fade to black moments where little may be said but much implied.

achingallover's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Violence, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Trafficking, War, Gun violence, Misogyny, Death, and Murder

shoshin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

I read this book for a class. It's haunting, and it's about being haunted by the painful history and ghosts of slavery in the United States. Hall has gone through a lot, both as a historian and as a person, and it all comes through starkly in this book.

That said, the illustrations were terrible. They sometimes added information and emotion to the story, but the illustrator's style was very distracting--it was so dark (and I mean that literally, lots of black ink, and not just because so many of the characters are Black) that it was physically difficult to parse what was going on in the images sometimes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Slavery

Moderate: War and Rape