Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

A Life in Pieces: The harrowing story of a woman with 17 personalities by Richard Baer

1 review

beansbrigade's review against another edition

1.75

I just feel like this entire novel is an exploration and subsequent exploitation of the system's (Karen's) trauma. I have DID (or, as the novel outdatedly refers to it, MPD) and found that representation, whilst accurate, disheartening. This wasn't a novel about a system learning to work together to overcome the hardships that being a system entails, but instead a way for the author and treating professional to gloat about how wonderful he was. Repeating the same thing over and over, using the systems trauma for shock value, not adding any neuanced discussion around final fusion and functional Multiplicity. I didn't expect that to be a part of the main novel, due to the timeframe it took place in, but I did expect at least mention of it in the already existing authors note. But no, nothing. 
Honestly, as a system, this isn't the kind of novel I wish to see about folks like myself. Because this isn't about the system, it's about a therapist and how much he loves himself and his work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Rape