Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

46 reviews

badgerrncns's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

An absolutely astounding book. The story of Chanel Miller, the female victim of the heavily publicized sexual assault by a Stanford student and well known swimmer. This book is a must read. This well written book makes the reader feel all the emotions, pains and anger of the assault, the trial and the injustice of it all. Her testimony and statement are heart wrenching and so well articulated. I implore everyone to read this book. It’s such a sad glimpse into the disarray and sick influence of the court system and how victims are not fought for enough or heard. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, and Alcohol

sammymilfort's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

porsche_elise's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, Blood, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

claraarianne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

bloomingbookworm's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

Minor: Blood and Vomit

mimo_'s review against another edition

4.5

its hard to review a memoir bc its not just a made up story but smn that actually happened and i dont want to discount her experience but i will say i liked her writing and how she goes through everything that happened to her and the effects of it

i did leave a lot of rants in a buddy read and i did end up googling the case and reading the entire wiki page jdsjxndnxn

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

ninahuynh's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

Chanel Miller is such a great storyteller. I remember when this case broke in the news. I did not realize the incident happened just months before I myself attended college! Hearing Miller tell us her story, displaying her anger, frustration, sadness, numbness, loneliness, hopelessness really brought power to her story, especially in Emily Doe's Victim Impact Statement at the end of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

thursdd4y's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

*********NOT spoilers because this was a very public case, but if you don’t know about it, then you may consider my opinion to have spoilers**********

This book was both easy and hard to read. It feels so rare that women are vindicated, and that was the case here. An empty victory, but I was so proud of that California jury. We Asian women are stereotyped and taken advantage of because of those stereotypes. It’s unusual for BIPoC to get justice, to be believed, but when it’s rape, when it’s the victims who are vilified and scrutinized and intimidated and manipulated on the stand, it feels like BIPoC victims have an insurmountable agony. All that said, that damned judge - UGH!!! I feel like he violated her as much as Brock Turner. I hope they and the defense attorney and his parents share an eternal damnation where they are continuously violated and erased over and over and forevermore for legally gaslighting all women through their aggressively limp actions.

The judge being recalled was a very inadequate outcome. He needs to be tormented everyday for all the subpar sentences he’s surely meted out, because Brock was no way the first one he let off easy. As for this rapist whose sentence was pretty much a step removed from a get-out-of-jail-free card, the women in his area are holding him accountable. Still not enough, but at least his “freedom” comes with a lot of strings now - least according to Google.

Looked up Chanel in Instagram. Happy for her - happy that she’s found a way to thrive, though being an assault victim myself, I know she’ll have her haunted moments too. I wish her luck and send her lots of love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Outing, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Drug use, Sexual content, Vomit, Death of parent, and Outing