Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

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

5 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

swiggitypika's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Police brutality, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

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

lisztaffe's review

challenging dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Police brutality, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Addiction, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Classism, Death of parent, Drug use, and Gun violence

Minor: Torture