Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Persépolis / Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

164 reviews

bookishmaggie's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Torture

te_ss_i's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual harassment, War, Sexual assault, and Torture

emerentina's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Religious bigotry, War, Violence, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Torture, and Misogyny

Minor: Death

billie_visible's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Sexual assault

andrewhatesham's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Violence, Misogyny, and Torture

megha_tron_14's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Police brutality

Moderate: Torture, Violence, and Death

Minor: Suicide, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Death, Grief, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

itsyourgalyazza's review against another edition

dark informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War

Minor: Rape and Torture

amisk23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and War

rainbowrocky's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Police brutality, Classism, Sexism, and Colonisation

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Torture, Ableism, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Bullying, Kidnapping, and Murder

amschelly153's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Vulnerable. Heart breaking. Real. It feels like it invites the reader in to what should be a lovely, fun childhood that has been taken away by war, political decisions, and shines a light on how the globe affected an area that was running fine by itself before others stepped in.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Murder, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, and Classism