Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Róisín

9 reviews

robinks's review

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

I’ve been following this poet on IG for a while, and her powerful voice comes through in this collection as well. I also really loved the formatting, art, and color scheme of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Colonisation, Mental illness, Self harm, Blood, Sexism, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Deportation, Murder, Racism, Cultural appropriation, Death, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Abandonment, Grief, War, and Sexual assault

Minor: Cursing, Death, Drug use, and Sexual content

b_austridge's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Racism, Islamophobia, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

penguinsquack's review

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and War

Moderate: Colonisation, Abortion, Genocide, Body shaming, and Cultural appropriation

cryptidcas's review

challenging dark emotional reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Sexual assault, War, Mental illness, Racism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and Violence

codexqueen's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

A few gems scattered throughout, and some nice prose accompanied by beautiful illustrations. I appreciated the heavy emotions in the descriptions of the author’s multifaceted traumas and frustrations. 
My only griefs are that a lot of the selections the further I read became repetitive and a little too reminiscent of the sort of “shower thoughts” or “Instagram poetry” of contemporary writing (that’s not necessarily a bad thing, just not my thing personally). In retrospect, I think that this book might be better for some if read in short bursts or non consecutively.
Overall, this was a pretty average read, not bad by any means but I feel that the author is capable of better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Rape, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Racism, Colonisation, and Islamophobia

phoebe_l's review

emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Mental illness

Moderate: Racism, Islamophobia, Sexism, and Sexual assault

calybe's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

As someone from a similar background, this poetry was an enjoyable mixed bag. Some of the poetry really hit home, and Roisin is truly able to weave gorgeous sentences together. Such as:

i’m beginning to accept
that wars of self have
always existed, and that
pain is important,
when not self-indulgent.
embracing its
ineluctable existence

However, some of the poems were a miss for me as I felt the structure at times was too loose, like a freeflow of randome thoughts stitched together. However these were few and far between. 

I took my time to savour this book and it's poems, and think the author truly laid bare her soul in the pages very beautifully. I would recommend this book of poetry as one that intricately connects the past hurt to the present traumas, and how we are all interconnected in this. The topics are heavy, so do see the content warnings to avoid any triggers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault

losethegirl's review

emotional reflective sad

4.5

I really liked this book. It gave me a lot more insight into experiences that weren't mine, and the poetry in it was genuinely beautiful. There were some poems I couldn't connect with, which I think was more my own fault than the fault of the author. Be sure to look at content warnings before you read this book, though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Islamophobia, War, and Xenophobia

catolaeclectica's review

emotional informative fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Islamophobia, and Racism