Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

7 reviews

librarymouse's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

What a strange and unsettling book. To be able to continue to care for someone, especially platonically, while knowing the atrocities they've committed against innumerable individuals; the echo of which is so deep and widespread, is unfathomable to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Confinement, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Emotional abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Pregnancy and Antisemitism

inkell's review

dark informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Murder, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

danileah07's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Death, Sexual violence, Violence, and Rape

Moderate: Confinement, Misogyny, Abandonment, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Toxic friendship and Toxic relationship

puglover's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Child death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Incest, Child abuse, Abandonment, and Emotional abuse

aegireads's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child death, Death, Rape, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, and Cancer

Minor: Transphobia

falfy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.25

Absolutely fucked up, but I couldn’t put it down. Read it in 4 days. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

o_ro_se_do_bheatha_abhaile's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

1.25

how did she have such an interesting story handed to her on a silver platter, yet still make it so torturous to read? Her irritating defense of the police and self important tone does not sit right. Also I know this is a book written in the late 70s, but boy does Ann have an affinity for the r word, as well as blatant ableist and sometimes homophobic rhetoric. Very dated, if you're interested in the Ted Bundy case just read a few articles and don't waste your time on this awful 'classic'.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Rape, Mental illness, Gore, Emotional abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Homophobia, and Kidnapping