Reviews tagging 'Murder'

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

97 reviews

maggies's review

challenging emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Since reading Empire of Pain and Rogues, PRK has topped my list of nonfiction writers. His attention to detail and ability to weave a history that reads like a novel is second to none. The story of Jean McConville and her children, the nationalist movement, the origins of the Troubles, and its fragile peace and enduring legacy is told not necessarily chronologically, but thematically. PRK leaves a trail of breadcrumbs throughout as he builds to his final conclusion, with shocking twists and reveals along the way. Among the most shocking was the constant reminder of how recent this history is—while many active participants have passed away, many others are still alive, and memory is long.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, War, Torture, Suicide, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Confinement, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Murder, and Addiction

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Police brutality

welaneyding's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, and Murder

kefink's review

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Murder, Colonisation, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Hate crime, Torture, Death, Police brutality, Cursing, War, Addiction, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Incest, Cancer, Child abuse, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Medical trauma, and Suicide

nopnutspls's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide and Child abuse

spess's review

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Gun violence, War, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Death, Death of parent, Violence, and Colonisation

Minor: Eating disorder, Excrement, Alcoholism, and Child abuse

emmaevns's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Murder, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Eating disorder and Kidnapping

marina_s's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

For someone with limited knowledge of “the Troubles”, this was an informative and insightful read. The narrative weaves between characters and through time in a way more reminiscent of a novel than of non-fiction. 

This book centres on the people who lost the most, and gives a real sense of trauma inflicted on everyone both during the active fighting, and the rippling after effects. I kept thinking this was further in the past but the events at the end of the book were well within my adult lifetime. How do people move on, and should they?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Police brutality, Murder, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Torture, Eating disorder, and Alcoholism

qqjj's review

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Vomit, Death of parent, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Medical content, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Grief, War, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Trafficking

lipliplip's review

challenging dark emotional informative tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Murder, Death, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Blood, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Gun violence, War, and Police brutality

taytastic's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.5

Totally enthralling and truly captivating. It was a slow start but once I got past the first 60 pages, I could not stop reading it. The book is a nonfiction book about a war zone in modern history, engage accordingly.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, War, Confinement, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Suicide