Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad

5 reviews

theasbookworld's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Murder, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Grief, Child death, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Vomit, Physical abuse, Slavery, and Mass/school shootings

felisiyah's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

5.0

It’s very well written. I sob a lot at the end of the book. i’d say that this is a very dark memoir and the abuse Nadia went through was so horrible it sounds like a fiction but it’s not. thoughts & prayer for the victim.. thank you for sharing Nadia it was so brave decision that you’ve made.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Torture, Rape, Trafficking, Slavery, and Genocide

emmakanjo's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, Slavery, Grief, Torture, Trafficking, Emotional abuse, War, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Rape, and Sexual violence

laurikas's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.5

This book is tough, the story is so harrowing it physically hurts to read it.

But I understand it's Nadia's right to tell it, however way she wants to tell it.
It does not do to keep silent, and what courage it must take to face it all every day. I admire her for speaking out and for being so active in trying to stop the atrocities against her ethnicity and religious belief.

The only reason I won't rate this any higher is that I expected a bit more from the book - perhaps some more historical context, a different approach to the storytelling, to what the future should look like, even more political, more demanding, more forceful. As it is, I felt it repetitive and very descriptive of violence that we know exist - world is evil - but that could be triggered differently. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Torture

Minor: Vomit

melannrosenthal's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Violence, and Torture