Reviews tagging 'Torture'

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

6 reviews

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

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

amy_park's review

dark medium-paced

3.5

Utterly harrowing and haunting. Not my "typical" type of read but was prompted to give it a go as it's on the longlist for the women's prize for non fiction 2024. This investigative journalistic memoir was eyeopening. I was shocked and horrified throughout, at the many eyewitness testimonies and pure grief families suffered during the drug war was relentless.
This book is not for the fainthearted. I was in such a state of horror throughout reading it did make me slightly disconnect from the book, but that definetly is on me. 
I didn't jell with the occasional passages on language and definitions, I think this was just my personal preference and I was in a state of overwhelm, so wasn't able to digest these sections (and some of the stories of killings) as much as I wanted too.
I learnt alot from this book and made me question how precarious democracy is and how anybody's life can easily change due to extreme political power.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Gun violence, Police brutality, Torture, and Mass/school shootings

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