Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Counting the Cost by Derek Dillard, Craig Borlase, Jill Duggar

20 reviews

barefootsierra's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting

Moderate: Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, and Alcohol

avalon_green's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

4.0

This book was absolutely mind-blowing. It was so interesting to hear Jill's perspective on everything from filming, to her personal relationships with her family, to her growing her own family, to the situation with her brother. The way she was raised and the things her parents (Dad specifically), did to her was crazy. She handled this book with a lot of grace and integrity I believe, and told her story in a way that was informative and eye-opening, but you could tell she still has a lot of those beliefs instilled in her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting

Moderate: Pedophilia and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

mokmu's review against another edition

informative tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

serenedancer's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.5

Look neither Jill nor her husband are perfect people. I disagree with them on many points, and there are subjects that she could have unpacked a bit more. But she's not the kind of person who is going to do that, as she is still a religious conservative, just not as extreme as before.

But looking at this book just as a book, I would say that it's a good look into Christian Fundamentalism and into the Duggar's.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Rape, and Violence

sarahina_b's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Jill did an amazing job of capturing the harm that organized religion has inflicted on her family while holding such grace and love for everyone involved. 

As someone who has lived under a family that idolized the Duggar lifestyle, this was both hard and relieving to listen to and understand more thoroughly why my parents made the decisions that they did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

pardonmylord's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

3.5

I truly hope she has a nice, quiet life after all she’s been through. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

jade_sanderson's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual assault

Minor: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kaitlin28's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Sexism

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

kyriannaj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Death, Miscarriage, Rape, and Pandemic/Epidemic

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

   A memoir from one of the Duggar children and her journey from a child on reality TV to adulthood.
    I feel like she went WAY too easy on her parents. She might not want to go too hard on them because of legal proceedings and her relationship with her siblings. But her parents completely brainwashed her, and she overlooked much of that in this book. As well as not getting much into how IBL is a cult, she mentioned it but didn't get into it much.
    This book was a bit surface-level. I hope she's able to work through more therapy. It was quite rage-inducing, at the Duggar parents and the church book. Her Dad is the worst! He's an expert manipulator. 

Narrator Rating: 3 stars
  I like that she read her memoir, but her voice was easy to get bored by.

 Extra ratings:  Fluff-NA  Heartfelt-3/5   Helpful-2/5    Horror-NA   Inspiration-NA   
Love aka Romance-NA  Mystery-NA    Predictability-NA  Spice-NA   Suspense-NA   Tear- 2.5/5  Thrill-NA   Humor-NA

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Incest, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Blood, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Vomit, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol