Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

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

16 reviews

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

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

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

cassielaj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.5

The content of this book is so difficult to read at times, but so worth it. Erika’s story is like none I’ve ever heard, and you can’t help but listen to her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

caregorman's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

3.75

Very much invested in the case but wasn’t the best written methinks 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

emilymhb's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.25

I wish I could give this five stars, but there's something about the way she writes about her experiences and the talent which gave her those experiences which feels off. She also has some questionable interactions (textually AND realistically I assume) with some characters down on their luck, which point out her position on a slightly higher horse than you might expect. Overall a beautiful memoir of a woman cursed and blessed with the talent of pulling out everyone's secrets.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

jaimeberger's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

kerjones25's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Domestic abuse