Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexiévich

3 reviews

sophie42's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cancer, Terminal illness, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Chronic illness, Suicide, Animal death, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

leahfoko's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

5.0

This book was fascinating to read, but also very sad. It was really interesting to hear the stories of people in and around Chernobyl and what they and their families experienced. It was often heartbreaking and really challenging to read certain parts so it is important to be aware of how some of the gruesome parts and the grief and loss that many people felt could be triggering for some. I think the author did a good job of including people’s stories as they wanted them to be told and being respectful of their stories and experiences. If you’re interested in what happened at Chernobyl, and if you enjoyed the show Chernobyl on HBO then I recommend this book. (I read it in large part because Craig Mazin said it informed a lot of his choices on the show and recommended people read it.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Child death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Cursing, Violence, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Murder, War, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

mmorenagomes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

Couldn’t handle the whole situation, couldn’t read a single story without crying. Even tough I have read Svetlana’s books about war, this one hits different, it changed my perspective of the accident, it made Tchernobyl real. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Physical abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Body horror, Child death, Infertility, and Violence