Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

37 reviews

b_frank's review against another edition

challenging dark sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

charlottejones952's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

kittygrh1127's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.75

I read this at a super smash brothers tournament and only didn't cry buckets of tears because I was in public. unbelievably sad, tragic, and infuriating.  has some truly disturbing and gross descriptions. like I get why they're there but my Christ some of them were rough to get through!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

gondorgirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

savreads28's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

2.0

The book was very informative on the subject of the Radium Girls. There was almost too much detail and getting through the book is definitely not for the weak. I listened to a lot of it on audiobook. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

infinite_harness9030's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infertility, Terminal illness, Grief, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Murder, and Pregnancy

jonie_rich's review against another edition

dark inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

I thought this was beautifully written! Be that as it may, you’re going to have to be in a good headspace to read this. It is grotesque, heartbreaking, infuriating, and chilling. The post script genuinely caused me to gasp. I had to take a break a couple of days in and read something else for a little while. However, I absolutely recommend this book, especially if this is a subject or a time period that you’re interested in. The author clearly did her research. I learned a lot while I was reading it and found it very compelling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

iang186's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death of parent

ashley_briana26's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book is a respectful telling of the lives of the Radium Girls. I came into this knowing nothing about them except that they existed and I closed this book only two days later and I have a much better understanding of the situation and the girls. This takes them from a vague concept of workplace safety and transforms them into real women that lived, worked, suffered, and died. The respect the author has for these victims is evident in her writing. This is not a bland statement of facts but a real story that’s being told that makes it easy to read. I highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Abortion, Death of parent, and War

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

4.0

A horrifying tale of corporate negligence in the name of profit that led to hundreds of people who came in contact with the radium corporations having early and often incredibly painful deaths. I found it amazing how far these corporations would go to defend their profits, and how it echoes so much of what's happening in today's increasingly unregulated workplaces. It always seems like it's about to get better and then for decades these women just suffered needlessly and cruelly all because some men didn't want to pay a small portion of their profits for the women's care.

The things I didn't like were the audiobook's narrator (I know that's not the author's fault, but I did not care for her style of reading) and I didn't care for the author's note.  I don't know, I just didn't really care why she cared about this story. I also think that more time could have been explored making connections to contemporary working conditions and more focus on how radium is still negatively impacting corporate workers today. But this isn't an academic book, and I can  accept it for what it is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent