Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

12 reviews

gaeliloveweiss's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexism, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Cannibalism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Classism, Death of parent, Torture, Child abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Grief, Violence, War, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Racism, Slavery, and Suicide

beccalove's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Hate crime, Death, Child death, Sexual assault, Genocide, Child abuse, Blood, Rape, War, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Colonisation, Slavery, and Pedophilia

nancydavis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I’ve been reading this book alongside my journey through Cambodia, during which I have visited sites such as the Killing Fields and S-21. 
Needless to say this is a very difficult yet extremely important read. 
I hope that this book, alongside the genocidal centres in Phnom Penh, will continue to be used as seminal resources to help ensure that crimes such as those committed during the Khmer Rouge regime never happen in any part of the world again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, War, Violence, and Genocide

Minor: Suicide

whatannikareads's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

a very important, hard read. definite warnings if you can't read about blood, genocide, murder, but i'm grateful that she didn't sugarcoat the atrocities committed on the cambodian people. we all know genocide and war is bad, but it's books like these that humanize the victims and give us vivid insight into what happened to them. how the effects of war stay with you forever. i hope ung's family members who were murdered have found peace; a book like this is a blessing that exists.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Sexual violence, Suicide, Vomit, Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Mental illness, Excrement, Cannibalism, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Rape, War, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Racism

m4rtt4's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Heartbreaking, well-written, emotional, important. ANOTHER CATASTROPHIC CONFLICT OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS DECIDED TO IGNORE smh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Rape, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, War, Xenophobia, and Racism

ob_liv_ious's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Death, Genocide, Child abuse, and Death of parent

zakcebulski's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Blood, Death of parent, Genocide, Child death, Racism, Sexual assault, Confinement, Death, Grief, Child abuse, Gun violence, and War

barbiejoon12's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Child death

Moderate: Classism, Murder, War, Genocide, Violence, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Pedophilia

Minor: Rape, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, and Cannibalism

hotkoolaidpotato's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, War, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Torture, Child death, Child abuse, and Vomit

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Cannibalism and Excrement

mustypoet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, War, Violence, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, Child death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, War, Violence, and Racism

Minor: Misogyny