3.12k reviews for:

Cilka's Journey

Heather Morris

4.32 AVERAGE

datelee's review against another edition

4.75

inspiring sad tense medium-paced

alanakj2378's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

sarahslibraryofbooks's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Deportation

rxb_reads's review against another edition

3.5

reflective sad medium-paced

sandybeaches07's review against another edition

hopeful informative sad fast-paced

kimzies's review against another edition

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Got me questioning if I should be reading this off the first page but love this book

lmaden's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

ellen_una's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

umid24's review against another edition

5.0

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Loved this book, was super interesting and insightful as I have never heard much of the Russian Gulags. However, the only downside is that the author did not actually meet Cilka (subject of this book) so it is not 100% true. she does say that it is a mixture of both non-fiction and fiction as it uses as much information from research and those who had known Cilka but I wish it was more accurate

appledales's review against another edition

5.0

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I love it. I love historical fictions. I love this book way more than the first one, might because I focused on every chapters and really understood the story through the words.

It’s the thing with books, they make you feel something familiar even though you haven’t experience it at all.