Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

3 reviews

daveketter's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

Desmond’s work is a solid, revealing, and heartbreaking encounter with poverty at its most fundamental impact—our homes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Child death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Minor: Abandonment and Suicide

kaddyren's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Very informative and has memorable characters, but would probably not read again any time soon. Lots of triggering subjects. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

edie_reads's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Excrement, and Cursing