Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Róisín

3 reviews

arcadiabaes's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Sexual 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

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