Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi

75 reviews

ryraeriv's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

Moderate: Classism, Death, Misogyny, Child death, Grief, Blood, and Rape

madmadmaddymad's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I love the art. The simple, black and white depictions of such horrific events, really brings it down to the perspective of a child being reared in a politically unstable environment. 

Endearing and deeply distressing. A powerful read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Gore, Murder, Violence, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Classism, Sexual assault, and Colonisation

00phantom's review against another edition

challenging inspiring sad tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, War, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Rape

markwillnevercry's review against another edition

0.5

So, there is a bit to tell. I really did not like this book. You might think "Ah, so you did not like it, because it was bad", but it wasn't. Marjane Satrapi does a very good job of showing how she grew up and how stuff changed her. However, it felt a bit like listening to your friend go through absolute shit, without recognizing that you also have problems that you have to deal with. Marjane Satrapi just kept going, because she wanted to tell her story and it was uncomfortable to read, specifically the Vienna part. As a separate note, this book is just in general giving the vibe of "i do not care about the way you feel, because i will never reflect on this", so we got slutshaming and fatphobia. I kind of feel like I wasted my time with this book. 

Reading notes:

Momo sucks ass.

She just accused man of a crime he didn't commit? And what she accused him of is not even comparible of her wearing lipstick? And her and her boyfriend are so happy about it? They deserve each other. 

The scene with the pills in uni. Just like, girly, if you have something on your heart, maybe don't throw it at the first person you see?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Fatphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Cursing, Drug abuse, Bullying, Confinement, Rape, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Excrement, Hate crime, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Torture, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

I do not actually remember if there were examples of addiction, alcoholism and drug abuse, but I am not planning to reread the whole book to find them. It felt like they were there, but do not trust my word. Also, ableism is there for like a chapter, but it is bad.

parenthesis_enjoyer's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Violence, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, and Rape

camreads22's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Murder, and Blood

Minor: Rape

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, Gun violence, Colonisation, Torture, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Violence, War, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Xenophobia, and Death

kjones13's review against another edition

challenging tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

Moderate: Rape

betweentheshelves's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This is really such an accessible look at living in Iran during the war in the 1980s, which honestly not a lot of YA lit really covers. It's a realtively simple art style, but there are panels that really get the emotions across. Marjane feels a lot of things, and props to her parents for encouraging the freedom she desired. 

There are parts of this that are also hard to read, given the subject matter. It would make great required reading for a social studies class in high school. It will definitely make for good discussion tonight at our book club.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Torture, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Homophobia and Rape

alishamegan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Police brutality, Violence, Child death, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Classism, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, War, Sexual assault, and Misogyny