Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice by Christine Kenneally

3 reviews

creativerunnings's review

medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Ableism, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Bullying, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Violence, Vomit, Body shaming, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Grief, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, and Sexual violence

bethboo's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

The things these children went through are so awful and horrid that it sounds fictional. It feels made up, because there's no way real life humans could treat real living children, right? Except, this book tells the tale of multiple orphanages from Australia, Canada, and the United States, majority run by the Catholic Church, and their victims. It tells the stories of children early as 1920s to the 1980s-1990s and the abuse they suffered at the hands of people that were tasked to care for them.

The stories were heartwrenching and graphic and hard to listen to at times. Half these kids didn't really even need to be in the orphanages, they were taken from their families or given to the church to give them a better chance at life. Instead they were beaten, threatened, humiliated, neglected, molested, confined, tortured, and in some cases murdered. So many people were haunted by their time there. There were suicides and self destructive addicts and others who fed the cycle of abuse. It was hard to hear and broke my view of humanity. You can't expect good from anyone. And humans are wretched creatures. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Violence, Vomit, Torture, Grief, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Child death, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Bullying, and Domestic abuse

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Abandonment, Murder, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Confinement, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Child death, Violence, Pedophilia, and Vomit