Reviews tagging 'Murder'

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

55 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)

---

Content Warnings

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

vlawsreads's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Abortion, and Murder

charlottevernia's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

4.0

This was a tragic story beautifully told by Liliana's sister. My only complaint is that I wish I would have read it instead of listening to the audiobook. The story jumps timelines from present day to the past, and is also told from different perspectives. The narrator of the audiobook doesn't change her tone or inflection at all when changing perspectives, so it's very difficult to distinguish who's telling the story at a specific time. I listened on Libby and the "chapters" are very large and lumped together. For example, multiple chapters are 60+ minutes, and one is 90 minutes in audio format, but within each chapter there are multiple segments/perspectives. So you can't even go back to the start of the chapter if you miss the name of the speaker, because it may take you back over an hour (as a side note, this does seem to be slightly better in the Spotify version, but not by much). Overall, this was a beautiful tribute to Liliana, but I think I missed a lot of details because I didn't know who was speaking at any given time. 

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Murder

brittlove501's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad

4.75

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Grief, and Murder

amtimreck's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

2.75

Don't come for me! The story is so important and should be told. The WRITING did it a major injustice. It's very disjointed and I feel like the story wasn't told WELL. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Police brutality, Medical content, Murder, and Pregnancy

claudiatralenuvole's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

2.0

L'argomento è molto triste e commovente ma il modo giornalistico in cui l'autrice sceglie di raccontare ha tolto potere alla narrazione. Mentre ho apprezzato i racconti intimi dei familiari, le parti da inchiesta mi trascinavano via dall'emozione, così come i pezzi di diario. 
Con uno stile e una struttura diversi l'avrei amato di più. 

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, and Murder

sfassler's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

---

Content Warnings

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

lllem00n's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

---

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

camrynsbookshelf's review

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, and Murder

aploinard's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexism, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Rape and Abortion