Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza

21 reviews

laurebzrd's review against another edition

sad tense

4.0

roman sur la sœur de l’autrice,  assassinée par son ex à 20 ans. Elle y retrace la vie de sa sœur, sa personnalité, ses liens amicaux et familiaux, et la période qui a précédé le féminicide. 
hommage intime et politique retracé à partir des documents de Liliana, très bien (écriture pas évidente au début mais maybe à cause de la traduction, ensuite ça devient + fluide)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder

sfassler's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Abortion, and Murder

lllem00n's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Rape and Suicidal thoughts

hmetwade's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, and Abortion

maggier31's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Murder

claraarianne's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

lunamonica08's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Abortion

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

Liliana's Invincible Summer is as captivating as it is heartbreaking. When the Mexican justice system fails to produce the file pertaining to Liliana's murder - let alone bring her killer to justice - Rivera Garza uncovers her long-dead sister's voice through letters, notes, journals, and testimonies of friends and family. The two sisters' voices become braided together in the process, speaking in a complicated tangle of love and grief. I constantly thought of my own sister, who is barely older than Liliana was, while I read this, and several times, I had to stop to cry. It's a haunting account of how intimate partner violence escalates, and how the signs are often missed by a society misogynistic and desperate to blame the victim. It surpasses Rivera Garza's goal, which was to recreate the missing file, by far - the detail and care put into this book is beyond what a coldly professional report could muster, of that I'm certain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, and Abortion

Minor: Cursing, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Excrement, and Toxic friendship

-Death of sibling -Implications of necrophilia

pasalazar99's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

Todo es narrado con la voz de Liliana y, sin embargo, Cristina logra decir todo aquello que no tenía nombre mientras Liliana vivió: violencia doméstica, acoso, manipulación, feminicidio

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, and Murder

jennaniho's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, and Murder