Reviews tagging 'Violence'

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa

15 reviews

thesaltiestlibrarian's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Death of parent

sammantha's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Broke my heart into a thousand pieces.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Child death, Violence, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal cruelty, Suicide, and Blood

nicolemillo's review

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

I’m never sure what to say about these sorts of accounts. This was informative, sad, reflective and well-written. Despite the subject matter, Masaji Ishikawa manages to bring some wry humour to the text on occasion. Brian Nishii did an excellent job with his narration of Ishikawa’s story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Cannibalism, Violence, Excrement, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Child death

marenk's review

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Pregnancy, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Suicide attempt

ivana's review

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Police brutality