Reviews tagging 'War'

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

68 reviews

kirkspockreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Gun violence, War, Violence, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Racial slurs, Murder, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Abandonment, Abortion, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Grief, Racism, and Pregnancy

skeltzer's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death

cecilie_who_reads's review

dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

A story of survival, endurance and plans thwarted by the casual arrogance of several warring parties, told without self pity and in neutral tones. This graphic chronicle follows tells and shows the stories of Thi Bui's parents. As for the emotions, it tells about Thi Bui's reactions to this, but does not beg the reader to feel the same way.
But her parents as children and young people are so well conveyed that you feel it could be you. The lack of safety, the repeated chock of having all plans overturned, sneaks in on you in your armchair. It invites the reader (and, as Thi Bui says, her own self too) to renewed respect for the survivors, even those that spend their days in a dark room, grumpy and unapproachable for apparently no reason.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Domestic abuse, Death, War, Miscarriage, and Abandonment

Minor: Mental illness, Mass/school shootings, Drug use, Vomit, Xenophobia, and Racial slurs

Starvation, persecution, and hiding alone in the darkness in small spaces are also part of the story. Read it, but hold someone's hand.

ittywitty's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deportation, Confinement, War, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, Grief, Miscarriage, and Colonisation

osteele98's review

emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death, Abortion, and Xenophobia

Minor: Domestic abuse

moon_dude's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

The illustration is so beautiful! Wonderfully composed, and a thoughtful exploration of what it means to be a parent, especially within the context of trauma and war.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, and Child death

odetojersey's review

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Miscarriage, War, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Violence, and Grief

aleighc's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Miscarriage, Death, and War

distractible's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Child death, War, Grief, Colonisation, and Pregnancy

Minor: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, and Child abuse

okdupuy's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

3.5

i think it would have been more interesting if she focused on herself instead of her parents so much 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Grief, Colonisation, Death, Police brutality, War, Gore, and Infidelity