Reviews tagging 'Death'

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

34 reviews

salemander's review against another edition

5.0

devastating and so informative. free the congo. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, Death, Slavery, Violence, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, Child abuse, Colonisation, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, and Trafficking

ecn's review against another edition

5.0

Mandatory reading!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Child abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Infertility, Sexism, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Sexual harassment, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Body horror, Colonisation, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Trafficking, Cancer, Death of parent, and Genocide

jiao_li's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Death, and Child abuse

scmiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Trafficking, Classism, Confinement, Death, Torture, Sexual violence, Slavery, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Genocide, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, and Miscarriage

Minor: Car accident and Animal death

lowkeymarie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Gun violence, Violence, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

marydith's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

Thorough explanation of how capitalism and colonialism have created a feedback loop of violence and oppression for miners in the Congo. Absolutely horrifying and I will be telling everyone to read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Child death

ekmartin's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Trafficking, Physical abuse, Violence, Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Classism, Child abuse, Slavery, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Medical trauma, Violence, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Medical content, Racism, Rape, Torture, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

caseycdelima's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.5

I would give this book a 4.5, but mostly because I listened to it as an audiobook and so it was sometimes hard to follow some of the acronyms and names mentioned. Despite this, I believe this is such an important telling of a story that is not well known among the Western world but something we all are complicit in. The people of the Congo are still wrapped in brutal slavery that speeds forward due to green energy and technological advances hailed in wealthy countries. Kara does an excellent job balancing historical facts, statistics, and personal stories of the Congolese artisan miners and I was horrified by this account and am even more interested in learning more about how we can demand change and freedom for the Congolese.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Slavery, Sexual violence, Violence, and Xenophobia

bexs848's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book encouraged me to think more critically about what and how I consume in Western civilization. Extremely informative and sad, and very well-written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Racism, Colonisation, Child abuse, Child death, and Sexual assault

shay43geek's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Grief, Blood, Colonisation, and Death

Moderate: Violence, Sexism, and Sexual harassment