Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

11 reviews

moriahleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Violence, Hate crime, Sexual violence, Grief, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Gun violence, Murder, and Rape

Minor: Self harm

anniereads221's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Violence, Racial slurs, Grief, Police brutality, Blood, Sexual violence, Lesbophobia, Gun violence, and Racism

Moderate: Cancer and Death

Minor: Slavery and Transphobia

kaynova's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

i need to purchase the audiobook and the physical book because i need this for keepsakes, i need to hold this to my heart, no scratch that, my soul.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Lesbophobia, Grief, Police brutality, Death of parent, Body horror, Rape, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

michaelion's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.25

My girlfriend gave me this for my birthday, now I gotta give it back to him so they can read it too! 🥰

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Child death, Gun violence, Grief, Sexual violence, Rape, Misogyny, Homophobia, Death, Miscarriage, Racism, Police brutality, and Violence

yellow_star's review against another edition

inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

This probably is too much for many teens to read and this is mainly an adult book.  Unless you're sadly already dealing with this heavy stuff in your own life. 

 There's a lot of sad in this, and it's not really a beautiful restful poetry book it's more of a mourning and rebellion book. The author discusses human rights violations against African Americans and queer people and  women, writes poetic responses to celebrities like Kanye and Serena and Michelle Obama, and does some experimenting with form like a word search for women murdered as a racist hate crime. Even poems that should be happy like the love of a mother or romantic partner are uneasy and fearful of future pain and violence. The poems about abused slaves and rape are too real and painful to read. Overall a good thing to read, but choose a reading time when you have some emotional bandwidth free to process it. 

There's also some sections on institutional abuse of the physically and mentally disabled. And some standing with missing or murdered indigenous women. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Physical abuse, Death, Confinement, Grief, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Homophobia, Cultural appropriation, Classism, Child death, Child abuse, Body horror, Blood, Rape, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, and Ableism

queenshrike's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring relaxing sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This is not a book that I think can be read in one sitting. I had to pause and come back so many times. Not just out of sadness or anger but because a phrase, a line, a stanza, a poem hit me in a deep place and I needed a moment or several really. I adore this work.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Bullying, Classism, Drug use, Grief, Alcohol, Colonisation, Death, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Police brutality, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Slavery

hngisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Murder, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Transphobia, and Violence

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Beautiful poems about all the ways Black women lose, repossess, fight for, love, and leave their homes, both figurative and literal. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

readmeem's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

This would be a pleasant read for any woman of color. I felt so many of these poems (even starred some). One thing that I would have liked to see is a break up of when they would start talking about another section (family, relationships, rape etc)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Racial slurs, Medical content, Death, Medical trauma, Racism, Grief, Rape, and Pregnancy

edithcazares02's review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

This was absolutely powerful, Insightful and at times a little triggering. But I couldn’t put it down once I got going, I admit that I ugly cried about 90% of this book. The underlying messages were incredible and done with such beauty at times. 

This book will stay with me for a long time 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Torture, Transphobia, Grief, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Trafficking