Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

20 reviews

hannahcstocks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Rape, Grief, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Cancer, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Physical abuse, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Stalking, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Grief, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Panic attacks/disorders

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cancer, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Cursing, Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Abandonment, Physical abuse, and Stalking

switt713's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Rape, Death, and Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer

marigold_faye's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Body shaming, and Child death

Minor: Terminal illness, Death, Cancer, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Grief

twilightfan420's review

dark funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

5-star memoir alert! I enjoyed every page of this so much I risked getting horribly carsick to finish reading it on a road trip. The relationship with the author’s mother was so complex and expertly-detailed. I think Ford examined the multiplicity of what it means to be family in an enlightening way; the concept of unconditional love shone through the entire narrative and manifested very different through Ford’s individual relationships. I think Ford writes sexual trauma in an extremely conscious yet evocative way. I could feel her pain through  the writing but I could also feel her strength. As a survivor myself, I felt seen and empowered at the same time as Ford reckoned with her own experiences and the narrative she’d been told about her father throughout the work. Also, the way it the story was told starting and ending at the same point was so beautifully done. It felt wrapped up but still realistic in a way that many narrative nonfiction cannot capture.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Miscarriage, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Adult/minor relationship, and Violence

Minor: Animal death

donnique's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

Some of the best memoir writing I've ever seen. A perfect encapsulation of a life filled with heartbreak, trauma, and triumph. I cried. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism

tbose22's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Terminal illness, Pedophilia, and Cancer

radfordmanor's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Racism, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

travelseatsreads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.0

I picked up Somebody's Daughter knowing absolutely nothing about Ashley C. Ford, who she was or what she had achieved. I picked up the book based on the marketing/blurb which described a memoir based on Ashley's childhood, upbringing and her relationship with her father.

Firstly, this is only my opinion of my engagement with the book as a piece to be consumed and does not diminish or cast judgement on Ashley's own lived experience.

For me this book was great to a point, but left far too much unanswered. Of course this is Ashley's memoir so it it ultimately her right what to include or exclude but I feel the marketing of this book left the reader expecting elements that weren't discussed.

Ashely bravely discusses her rocky relationship with her mother, her traumatic rape and her general life once she leaves home and this is where the book shines.

Overall I found it to be deeply interesting but I finished it with so many questions and felt Ashley maybe had more to say. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Terminal illness