Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

24 reviews

hdowlinghuppert's review

challenging dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Violence

helenaeoftroy's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Emotional abuse, Violence, Racism, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse

moonpotter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Rape, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, and Sexual violence

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

bookends_by_zaz's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, and Sexual violence

allipan's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book made me sob, but it also made me feel so seen. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Rape

gtrue21's review against another edition

challenging

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Rape, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Incest, Medical content, and Physical abuse

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

anger566's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Death

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Pregnancy

paperbacksandvinyl's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Death and Cancer