Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista

15 reviews

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

It was not always linear and at times was difficult to follow 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Misogyny, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Murder, Rape, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Child death, Addiction, Ableism, Gun violence, and Confinement

zoinkie's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Police brutality, Confinement, Drug use, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, Drug abuse, Addiction, Body horror, Colonisation, Death of parent, Death, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcoholism, Classism, Cursing, Gore, and Violence

ange_astylecollector's review

emotional

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Blood, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Body horror, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Torture, and Violence

wendywoo1's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Child death, Child abuse, Abandonment, Gun violence, Death, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Sexual violence, Body horror, Torture, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Racial slurs, Pedophilia, and Injury/Injury detail

jouljet's review

challenging informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Gun violence, and Death

oenophile_bibliophile's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Police brutality, Murder, and Child death

hesticht's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, and Murder

annamusgraves's review

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Child death, and Police brutality

omgsynecdoche's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

This is a thought-provoking piece about the state of not only the Philippines but also its people. In the midst of a “war on drugs” declared by a former president, there is a need to examine the casualties, and whether they were indeed enemies or simply collateral damage. 

Evangelista’s writing remains to be sharp yet poetic at the same time. I found especially interesting the way she paralleled the (re)birth of Philippine democracy 30+ years ago and the death of literally thousands of Filipinos. A must-read  if you’re Filipino, by blood, by law, or just at heart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Violence, Death of parent, and Gun violence

cheruphim's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

 Beautifully written, and chilling. This book details the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte in the Phillipines, from 2016 to 2022, and the casualties that resulted from his 'War on Drugs'. As someone from the United States, this book was highly informative and sobering. It reminds its readers of the real human cost that incurs when a presidency declares how they're dedicated to 'cleaning up the streets'. It's reminiscent of Nixon's war on drugs, on former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani's war on drugs, on George H.W. Bush's war on drugs, and is probably where Duterte got his inspiration.

I wish nothing but the best for the writer, and hope she is doing well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Car accident, Sexual assault, Child death, Police brutality, Gun violence, Stalking, Drug use, Grief, Confinement, Child abuse, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Gore, Excrement, Rape, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Addiction and Abandonment

Minor: Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and Sexual harassment