Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon

22 reviews

emmsbookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Misogyny, Death, Murder, Gore, Blood, War, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Child death, Slavery, Sexual violence, and Colonisation

laurajeangrace's review

dark funny informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Slavery, Child death, Blood, Gore, Death, Domestic abuse, War, and Murder

Moderate: Religious bigotry

m_a_j's review against another edition

funny informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Death, and Slavery

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Misogyny

ravennemain's review against another edition

dark funny informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, Slavery, and Murder

crownoflaurel's review

challenging funny informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Murder, Blood, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, and Gore

Minor: Child death, Sexual violence, and Suicide

mynameisinigomontoya's review

dark funny informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Death, and Slavery

yaboywillyshakes's review

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

2.25

While there are a handful of chapters where the author evokes the humanity of ancient murder victims and makes a decent argument about the way that murder is constructed as a concept by societies, her absolute disdain for the topic of Rome makes the first half of the book very hard to read. The later chapters are too full of somewhat childish pop culture references (largely Harry Potter, which also gives me pause for other reasons) to make the book relevant to larger audiences, and I was not impressed with the level of research in the last chapter specifically. It felt like the author was cherry picking information to support her own ends, and it felt very shallow in comparison with the preceding chapters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Slavery, Suicide, Incest, Sexual violence, Rape, Murder, and Torture

It's about ancient Rome and murder, so perhaps the content warnings should be assumed, but the author sometimes shoehorns topics into places where I did not expect them, I wish I had been warned.

rheagoveas's review

funny informative slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Slavery, and Violence

danimacuk's review against another edition

dark funny informative slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Rape, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Child death, and Physical abuse

Minor: Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, and Pedophilia

another_dahlia's review

dark funny informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Sexism, Murder, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Rape, Domestic abuse, Racism, Slavery, War, Animal cruelty, and Classism