Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

4 reviews

puggreader's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Racial slurs, Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Cursing, Death of parent, Hate crime, Gore, Blood, Death, Grief, and Gun violence

anniefwrites's review

dark informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Another informative, moving graphic memoir of John Lewis’s life. I especially appreciated how he and the other authors lifted up the stories of women in the movement in all three books because they are so often ignored. The imagery is not for the faint of heart, but it is really the next best thing for a generation who didn’t grow up watching the movement on television or participating in it directly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Racism, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Cursing

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, and Violence

ehmannky's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is by far the best of this trilogy of graphic memoirs, and this is high praise given that I think that the other two are some of the best that the genre has produced. There is so much death and violence and pain in this one, so much suffering, and yet Lewis, his co-author, and illustrator do not frame it as a story of despair, but as a story of hope and triumph over the forces of white supremacy and white liberal complacency that would create such a monstrous system that was and is systemic white supremacy in America. It's an incredibly moving work, and I had to stop multiple times to just let the words and the art sink in. It's so much to take in, and I cannot recommend it enough. 

I read the first of this series before much of the social unrest of 2020 occurred, and it struck me now as I finish it just how unfair it is that Lewis never got to rest. That he spent his final years battling the same white supremacists and their ilk that physically beat him as a young man. And how unfair it is that we're creating a world where Black people and their allies continually have to stand up to this. It makes me want to go out and push for a better world, even as it becomes clear that it won't happen within my lifetime. Which is what I hope John Lewis would have wanted. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Medical content, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Death, Car accident, and Blood

Minor: Sexism