Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

If You Tell by Gregg Olsen

84 reviews

elisenm's review against another edition

dark sad tense

Hard to rate a true story. This is not a book for the faint of heart. I kept wondering how it could possible get worse, and then it inevitably would. This is not a book that will give you hope in humanity, but it is a fascinating read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Torture, Murder, and Gaslighting

anna_cichewicz's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Gaslighting

bolte_books's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

n4yma's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

stayceee24's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

An awful story told exceedingly well. Not for the faint hearted.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, and Gaslighting

timikat716's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Murder

maruchan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

I don't know how to rate this book.

Should I give if five stars so people know I recommend it?

I feel bad giving a rating to an experience so raw.

What happened to this girl's is simply awful. Can't be put into words. Please know that this is a really painful read. It will stay with me for a long, long time. 

How can a person be so rotten inside? We will never know. I feel so bad knowing she was released from jail. Justice wasn't served enough.

Please read this. Even tho it's hard, the sisters deserve their story to be known. 

This book was so well written, it felt like fiction. I wish it was fiction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

your_geekygf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

2.0

This book is a true story but it is unbelievable. It is graphic, sad and frustrating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer and Rape

ashleyneidick's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

3.0

The stories told in this book are truly, absolutely horrific. You can’t help but feel for the victims. But the way the book is written makes everything feel pieced together, which it is to an extent, but there are a ton of blanks that could have been filled in that weren’t - such as almost nothing written about the police and why they didn’t act sooner, and so much was left out of the trials. It was hard to get through and finish this book for more than one reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia

goosiana's review against another edition

dark tense

4.0

*3.5

It was good. I can't believe what this mother and father (if you can call them that) did. It had everything you would need to tell a story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Excrement, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty