Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

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

12 reviews

kendal_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Child abuse, Death of parent, Blood, Child death, Medical content, Alcohol, Death, Grief, and Infertility

Moderate: Sexual violence

haleybird's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

This book was incredibly thought provoking and informative, it’s just really dense and was personally hard for me to get through, but I’m glad I did! It’s difficult for me to keep up with so many acronyms, company names, so much data and stats, etc. 

Regardless of that, however, I do believe this is a book that anyone who uses rechargeable electronics or electric vehicles should read. The more people know about the atrocities that continue to be committed in the Congo for the sole purpose of exploiting their resources, the better. 

I will surely be much more conscious about my consumption of products that use rechargeable batteries moving forward, as I can’t in good conscience keep blindly consuming while children, women, and men in the Congo continue to die indiscriminately. We all need to do better!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, War, Blood, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Classism, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, Genocide, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, Colonisation, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, and Trafficking

meat_muffin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Trafficking, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Gun violence, Genocide, Medical trauma, and Physical abuse

Minor: Police brutality, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual violence, Alcohol, and Sexual assault

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

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

mscalls's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Physical abuse, Child death, Death, and Slavery

2tinybirds's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Torture and Murder

Minor: Terminal illness

stephanieluxton's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Thos is an important book. The injustice happening in the congo in real time is unimaginable. 

I can appreciate all the work that the author did to research and write this book. No one seems to really know or talk about cobalt mining even though it's directly linked to our rechargeable devices. I think this book will become more important now that electric cars are being pushed so heavily.

It really makes you think about what other injustices are occuring in the world. Our first world problems suddenly seem so superficial after reading a book like this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Minor: Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Classism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Murder, Pedophilia, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Sexual assault

Nothing is overly graphic.

aiyam's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Classism, Colonisation, Death of parent, Slavery, Trafficking, Police brutality, Violence, and Confinement