Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez

4 reviews

annamwallace66's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Trafficking, Classism, Cursing, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Body horror, Rape, Sexual assault, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Child death, Gore, and Grief

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Gut wrenching. Traumatizing. Painful. Tearful. This one experience that Pulga, Pequena and Chico attempt as they leave their beloved home of Guatemala to go to the United States is a trek that is made everyday by people just like you and me wanting a better life then the one they were dealt with. I could write a dissertation about how distorted the right wing, conservative media paints these men, women and children but I won’t waste my time. Instead, this book highlights the fact that the trio are real people who needed to leave not because they wanted to but because dying at the hands of a gang/ gang member was not how they wanted to go out. The emotional trauma was felt in the words the author wrote and I will be forever grateful for this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, Sexual assault, Vomit, Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Minor: Abandonment

sierranorgan's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This book was tough, and every time it seemed like things were getting slightly better I was proved wrong. I enjoyed that this wasn’t a sugar coated version of what this journey is like though, and I enjoyed the different perspectives of the characters. But man did this one hurt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Rape, Body horror, Death, Sexual harassment, Murder, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

apworden's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Not only is this an incredibly important book, it is incredibly well written as well.  Every U.S. resident should read this to fully understand the situation at the border. It is a refugee crisis, no matter what terminology is used to hide this fact.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Rape, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Child death, Death, Grief, and Pregnancy