Reviews tagging 'Violence'

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

22 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

aploinard's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexism, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Rape and Abortion

montsegc90's review

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Creí que este libro me iba a romper, que iba a llorar a mares, especialmente por el miedo que me da el futuro que les depara a mis hijas. Pero, si bien me dolió hasta el alma, me dejó un sentido de justicia y hermandad que no había experimentado. Me encantó el formato del libro, cómo conocimos a Liliana, a su familia, sus amigos y esa relación que le quitó la vida. Todos tenemos que tener los ojos abiertos para detectar esas relaciones tóxicas que se pueden volver fatídicas y este libro arroja una nueva luz sobre ellas. Lo recomiendo amoliamente! Una lectura incomoda pero bellamente escrita y muy necesaria.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

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

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

mamaofperfectpayton's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, and Murder

karen_lo's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Violence, and Abortion