Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

21 reviews

josiee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Classism, Miscarriage, Confinement, Cannibalism, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Suicide attempt, War, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Murder, Pregnancy, Torture, Rape, Police brutality, and Violence

montyalmoro's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Medical trauma, Ableism, Abortion, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Murder, Police brutality, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, War, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Terminal illness, Violence, and Xenophobia

schnarlie's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

A deeply fascinating book that helped me understand the history and politics of China while at the same time making me feel deeply with the described people. Highly recommend this to anyone Chinese or interested in China, but also might be interesting to those who aren't either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Murder, War, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Classism, and Miscarriage

lu_ranger's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicide, War, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Torture, and Police brutality

98romantic's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.75

A classic for a reason!! Beautifully written to the point that it feels like fiction, but really it’s just credit to Jung Chang’s skills as a writer. Amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Misogyny, and Confinement

libby_bebby's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Torture

ciiara's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

i read this book for school and really enjoyed it.  the history was so interesting and so was the family's perspective. my only comment was that i often got confused with names and places, as there are lots of new characters introduced. it took me a long time to read and i found some sections very intense, but that is just the historical context. still a really interesting novel. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism and Torture

Minor: Blood and Slavery

temsu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Death, Medical content, Blood, Murder, Bullying, Child death, Torture, Death of parent, Gore, Misogyny, Mental illness, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Suicide, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

aristhecool's review

informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Sexual violence, Police brutality, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion

hotkoolaidpotato's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Amazing read for anyone curious about China in the 20th century. It’s a hard read, emotionally, but this book genuinely changed my life and the way I looked at and learned about other cultures and nationalities. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence