Reviews tagging 'War'

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

75 reviews

readwithev's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Bui is poetic and lyrical. The voice bubbles are not too full and crowded; you get all the information and emotion for the scene. I love the water color painting, ink, pen, paper texture, etc art style. The white, crème, black, and red with only blue at the beginning and end elevated some scenes with blood, explosions, clothing etc.
Bui talks about how challenging it was to get to know her parents, but she uncovers their origins and begins separating her expectations of them. It felt very healing and vulnerable. Bui delves into her childhood and the things she’s still healing from and beginning to see in differently now that she’s a parent.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Genocide, Miscarriage, War, and Violence

Minor: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, and Colonisation

lasafica_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Pregnancy, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Gun violence, Grief, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Classism, and Racism

kaitlinlovesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Child death, Death, and War

Moderate: Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, and Miscarriage

Minor: Xenophobia and Racism

alysereadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

achingly raw and beautiful exploration of parenthood as the child of an immigrant. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Miscarriage, Child death, Medical trauma, and Gore

caprivoyant's review against another edition

Tender and full of all sorts of flavors of familial love. 🩷

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Medical content, War, Child death, and Racial slurs

Minor: Xenophobia and Alcoholism

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

I'm in the minority for not loving this! It didn't work for me, something about the jumping through time and character meant I never sank into the narrative of their lives fully before we were ripped away. Maybe that's the impression the author wanted to leave the reader with, I'm not sure. I'll seek out other books on this period of history! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical content, War, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Gun violence, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Mental illness, Racism, Domestic abuse, and Murder

ka_cam's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.5

A moving reflection on family and the relationships between parents and children and people and time/place. Thi Bui addresses heavy topics with sensitivity and compassion for subjects. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, War, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual violence, Racial slurs, and Domestic abuse

laurawil's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and War

smalljoys's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, and War

nukie19's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Grief, Miscarriage, Death, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Child death