Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks

8 reviews

yaboywillyshakes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Homophobia

Minor: Death of parent

badbadwolf's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Terminal illness

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Misogyny, Homophobia, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Alcohol, Abandonment, Car accident, Child abuse, Bullying, Grief, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

_alias_ali's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Grief, Vomit, and Homophobia

Moderate: Pregnancy, Suicide, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Racism, and Hate crime

Minor: Classism, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Cancer, Biphobia, Car accident, Body shaming, Bullying, Addiction, and Child death

mkfreckles's review against another edition

emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Death

Moderate: Child abuse

xashleyxvix's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Homophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Child abuse

Minor: Dementia

lily_west's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

I devoured this book in a day, mostly so I could get all of the crying over with. The story is so sad and so necessary. Ruth Coker Burks writes in a way that is intriguing, enveloping, desperately sad, lighthearted when it's needed, and even funny. You get a sense of the real people behind her stories. The insight of a straight person into gay clubs and drag culture in the eighties and nineties is well done, too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Hate crime, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Dementia, Death, Homophobia, and Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Drug use and Addiction

unknight's review

challenging dark sad

5.0

Raw and emotional while being utterly unflinching in its descriptions, this book is a tearjerker. I could easily recommend this to anyone who wants to know more about the AIDS crisis in the US, and how it looked outside of the big cities. I think I started crying halfway through and couldn't really stop-- nothing puts life so well into perspective as a book about death. That's not to say that the book is all about Death: It's mostly a book about being human, and living, and trying really, really hard. I picked it up, thinking I'd read one chapter, and only put it down four hours later when I was done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Terminal illness

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical content, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Child abuse

the_literarylinguist's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Infidelity, Racism, and Sexual assault