Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse

7 reviews

mtnest's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Bullying

katunraveled's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Addiction, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Body shaming, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

jhbandcats's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.25

I liked the premise of the book and the way the author, Erika Krouse, interwove her history of child sexual abuse with the contemporary sexual assaults by the Univ of Colorado football team, told through the lens of researching a legal case. It’s part memoir, part expose of a university coverup at the highest levels. By including her own story within the legal case, Krouse turns a fascinating story of rape and deception into one of personal struggle and redemption. 

There’s no truly happy ending - there were no criminal charges ever filed, the university faculty and staff got off scot-free, and not everyone who was assaulted received part of the settlement. But within the convoluted justice system in the US, a form of justice was achieved. 

My only quibble was that all the names were changed even though the case, settled in 2007, is a matter of public record. However, I read an interview with Krouse in JNews where she explains more fully how she was doing all she could to protect the women by not tying them to assailants who might further retaliate. It was the best she could do under the circumstances. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Classism, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, and Violence

ravenpuff's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Alcohol, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use and Emotional abuse

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Everything that encompasses this book was difficult to navigate from beginning to end. I initially assumed this novel was going to center around a specific case centered around University of Colorado & those who were partaking in this. Some parts did revolve around the author’s job as a P.I and what it took to get people to participate / speak up. Other parts were about the author’s personal life including the abuse she suffered from the ages of 4-7. As much as I felt for her, it was still troubling to read / listen to just when I assumed we had finished reliving that part of the author’s life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Grief, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

kingsteph's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Abandonment, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

challenging tense medium-paced

5.0

Erika has a face that makes strangers tell her their deepest secrets.  After a chance encounter with a lawyer in a bookstore, she finds herself starting a job as a private investigator, despite her lack of formal experience.  The case that dominates the book concerns the pervasive rape culture and constant coverups of the University of Colorado football team.  Herself a survivor of sexual violence, Erika becomes obsessed with the case, her investigation branching off into her own life, into her relationships with the family members who deny, or simply don’t care, that she was sexually abused as a child.  Amidst descriptions of the Colorado landscape—breathtaking yet harsh—Erika learns the tricks of the P.I. trade, offering snippets of the profession’s evolution between recollections of her own research and interviews.  She scrambles to gather enough evidence to make someone do something about the sexual violence faced by her plaintiffs, but it’s not just for them, it’s for her, too.

Tell Me Everything is stunning and fascinating—part memoir, part true crime, but entirely an investigation.  Gabra Zackman’s narration complements the book beautifully.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Blood, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use, Alcoholism, Child death, Torture, Vomit, Death, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, and Suicidal thoughts