Reviews tagging 'Death'

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

22 reviews

bookdrunkard78's review

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

4.0

Loved it! Forever interested in the parts of history that get erased and the voices that are silenced. It's important to me to seek out those stories/histories and be a witness to the forgotten. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Murder, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Death

Minor: Racism, Violence, and Rape

thebookworm_queen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense slow-paced

4.0

Absolutely brilliant, from the design to the title and the history. The design features parallels and mirrors that add another layer to the story telling
Hall tells the untold stories of women slaves and I admire her bravery and determination as she went to great lengths to find their history. I found myself becoming livid and crying as I read about their history, please read care.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death, Racism, Violence, Racial slurs, and Slavery

devan's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.75

This book was so well executed. The artwork was stunning. Rebecca Hall did a wonderful job of weaving her story through the stories of powerful forgotten women. Very well crafted.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery and Death

miblette's review

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Violence, Slavery, Suicide, Hate crime, and Colonisation

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

readandfindout's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

Style/writing: 4.5 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4.5 stars
Art: 3 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Murder, Suicide, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Slavery, Death, Trafficking, Colonisation, Confinement, and Sexism

Moderate: Rape and Sexual violence

franklola's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Slavery, Suicide, Trafficking, Genocide, Murder, Violence, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, Sexual violence, Grief, Sexual assault, Death, Misogyny, Racism, and Colonisation

robinks's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

I didn’t like the illustrations, and the layout of some of the pages made the words difficult to follow. But overall, it was both heartbreaking and frustrating to read about lost history and how it repeats itself today in racist patriarchy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Grief, Sexism, Gun violence, Death, Trafficking, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, Child death, and Torture

Minor: Pregnancy, Blood, and Suicide

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