Reviews tagging 'Death'

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

43 reviews

evakonic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Grief, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, and War

gabriella_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.25

I think the poetry was well-written but some of the topic matter wasn’t really for me. I went in thinking this was more of a series of poems tying into family struggles and grief but I found a lot of it lewd and about other things. That’s fine but just not what I expected.

I wish I read this after On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous instead

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, War, Violence, Homophobia, and Domestic abuse

frankieclc's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual content

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, and Gun violence

jem_carstairs's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad

4.5

I’m not going to pretend I understood as much as half of the poetry in this book. But there were some lines that actually left me speechless. It was all beautiful. Even the parts I didn’t quite get.

I think my favourites were probably Trojan and Thanksgiving 2006. Anaphora as a Coping Mechanism and On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous were also up there 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia

meleac07's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Sexual content

Minor: Abandonment and Homophobia

blueberry0531's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Homophobia, and Xenophobia

mraddd's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

maximauve's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Rape, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Violence, and War

kia_y_k's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Racism, Child abuse, Death, Religious bigotry, and War