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Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris

7 reviews

mollywoolven's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

What a beautiful book!! 
I read The Tattooist of Auschwitz
during lockdown and reading this had the exact same feeling. Cilka is a beautiful strong woman. She is a true inspiration and I think it is captured in this book wonderfully. Although a very hard subject, there are some light hearted moments and I would recommend to anyone to continue with it just have regular breaks throughout! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Grief, War, Death of parent, Death, Infertility, Child death, Self harm, Rape, Pedophilia, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, and Miscarriage

julieaimebienlire's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Deportation, Sexual assault, Death, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Sexual violence, Antisemitism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Hate crime, Suicide attempt, and Torture

cwinship's review against another edition

reflective 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Miscarriage, Antisemitism, Death, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Self harm, and Infertility

bexab's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Rape, Child death, Self harm, and Sexual harassment

dautumn's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape and Self harm

punnypenguin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I read this book cover to cover in less than 12 hours, it is so gripping. I highly recommend anything written by Heather Morris

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Infertility, Rape, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Body shaming, Gun violence, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

alomie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book is extremely sad, it's a fictionalised novel about the life of a real woman who. Survived Auschwitz as a young woman, but while there is raped and works for the Nazi's to keep herself alive, and then once liberated is sentenced to 10 years in a Russian Gulag for "sleeping with the enemy". 
It was tough to get through and I had to stop and come back several times, it's hardly believable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Xenophobia, Violence, Trafficking, Torture, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Self harm, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Medical content, Infertility, Hate crime, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Death, Death of parent, Confinement, Cursing, and Antisemitism