Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson

14 reviews

dev921's review

dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, and Murder

starstreamer26's review

dark emotional sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Child death

Moderate: Stalking and Gun violence

kateyoutka's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

As difficult as it was to read, I'm extremely glad I read this book. It does justice to the victims of Sandy Hook, but it also shines an eye-opening light on the conspiracy theories and misinformation surrounding this shooting (and other similar incidents). This book is, of course, full of triggering content for anyone who may be sensitive to issues surrounding gun violence, the deaths of children and many other disturbing topics, but I would recommend this book to anyone who is comfortable reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Child death, and Death

sparky_lurkdragon's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Death, Child death, and Gun violence

shelbynik's review

dark emotional sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Child death

ruthypoo2's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, Stalking, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Mass/school shootings, Violence, and Gun violence

Minor: Cursing, Suicide, Religious bigotry, and Mental illness

samarakroeger's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

A thoroughly researched account of the scum of the earth (aka Alex Jones) and the spread of harmful conspiracies surrounding the horrific school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. Williamson draws strong ties between these decade-old lies propagated by Jones et al. and the rise of Trumpism and “alternative truths” that have proliferated through the under regulation of social media, especially through conspiracy groups on Facebook, culminating in the popularity of QAnon and the January 6th insurrection on the Capitol. 

After I had gotten this book from the library, there were two more mass shootings in quick succession. WTF is wrong with this country. 

There were a few instances where I noted repeated phrases and quotes from earlier in the book - but it is certainly challenging to edit a book of this scope and length and it didn’t detract too much from my reading experience. 

I feel for the many hours of InfoWars spewing Williamson must have had to watch for this book. And the interviews with conspiracy spreaders? Sketchy, indeed. I’m glad deplatforming has been fairly effective in at least some of these cases. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Stalking, Grief, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Death, and Murder

Minor: Eating disorder, Suicide, Self harm, and Mental illness

ralbert89's review against another edition

emotional informative sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Grief, and Death

gabrieyell's review

challenging dark informative tense slow-paced

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, and Xenophobia

el_nation's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Child death, Gun violence, and Bullying