Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Róisín

5 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

freddybingsu's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Islamophobia, Colonisation, Child abuse, War, Genocide, Hate crime, and Rape

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