Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

31 reviews

kirkspockreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Gun violence

animarret2boog's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, War, and Sexual content

growintogardens's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

2.5

I don't think I was in the right headspace for this book, too much sex and violence for me today. I liked a few lines here and there, and I can see the literary merit to some of them, but yeah it's not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence, War, and Death

Moderate: Grief

mikeybjones's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death of parent, Gun violence, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, and Violence

alondere's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The format can be confusing at first as Ocean tends to spice it up, but you'll get used to it quickly. Has such a creative use for symbolism and analogy that just guts you in at times. 

The novel title of his second book can be found here 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug abuse, Racism, War, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Terminal illness, and Homophobia

Minor: Racial slurs and Violence

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Violence and Homophobia

lynxpardinus's review

challenging emotional reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual content, Death of parent, Racism, and War

Moderate: Police brutality, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Ableism and Racial slurs

theinfinitebookcase's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Rape, Racism, Death of parent, War, Sexual assault, and Violence

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.25

Ocean Vuong has a beautiful way of twisting horrible things into beautiful words and making the horrible things seem not so horrible and making the beautiful things not so beautiful. I think I’ll have to sit with this one for a while and revisit to really delve into it, but a soulful read for the time being. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Hate crime, and War

Moderate: Homophobia

evakonic's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Grief, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, and War