Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

40 reviews

ainereads's review

adventurous dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Cursing, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Torture, Violence, War, Xenophobia, and Confinement

Minor: Child abuse

tomato_bisque's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I went into the book expecting a true crime story but left learning much more. It was a very good intro into the Troubles and its main players. I also enjoyed how it touched on the complicated morals of the whole situation. I definately want to read more on the subject. Some parts felt slow but overall it was great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Violence, Medical trauma, and Torture

Moderate: Grief, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

Minor: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

rivercat0338's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Self harm, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Eating disorder, Death, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

nyertryingtoreadeverything's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Gun violence, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault

exmareadastra's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Torture, Self harm, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Death, Confinement, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Incest, and Vomit

gwendolyn's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Eating disorder, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Child death

malloryfitz's review

dark informative sad

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Murder, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Grief, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, Suicide, and Child abuse

Minor: Cancer, Excrement, and Animal death

leah_alexandra's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence

chandrajohnson1208's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

Clearly, Patrick Radden Keefe has done a tremendous job here, but this was a hard, hard read. I'm definitely done with nonfiction for a good long while now. Part of the fault is on me, because I thought the book would be more about the McConvilles and less about Dolours Price, but I was wrong about that. No fault of Keefe's, of course--just a dearth of information about the mother, especially, it seems.
Well-written, well-researched, and well done considering how unsatisfying the situation currently is, and how precarious its future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, and Police brutality

horizonous's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Eating disorder, Suicide, and Excrement

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Racism