Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones

47 reviews

mrsmishler's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Gun violence and Murder

Minor: Animal death

knatreads501's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Incest, Pedophilia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Eating disorder, Suicide, and Murder

bogballaden's review against another edition

For grafiske beskrivelser af misbrug af børn. Jeg håber inderligt, at forfatteren fik noget godt ud af at skrive bogen og jeg værdsætter også, at den er udgivet og har læsere, når det (forhåbentligt da) er meningsfuldt for hende, men jeg har svært ved at forstå, hvad folk får ud af bogen... Jeg fik det fysisk dårligt af den flere gange og er kommet frem til, at det bliver nødt til at være min første DNF nogensinde, for den føles lidt som den mørkeste side af hele "true crime"-fascinationen. Ikke at jeg på nogen måde er hellig og ikke er faldet i fælden selv, men det er ikke noget, jeg er stolt af, for der er unægteligt noget virkelig fucked up ved vores kultur med det...

Puha. Jeg ønsker forfatteren og andre ofre af kulten ALT det bedste og må de fortælle deres historie ligeså ofte og med ligeså mange detaljer, som de vil og har brug for, men jeg bliver nødt til ikke at være læser på den her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, and Gaslighting

brookey8888's review against another edition

This is absolutely nothing against the book, in fact I found it really interesting. That being said this is so graphic and disturbing reading about graphic details of childhood sexual abuse that I just can’t stomach it at this point in time. Maybe I’ll pick this up again in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

antimonium's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Hard to read but griping.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Suicide

byashleylamar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

erebus53's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This is not a book you want to start into without first being in a good place. It tells the personal story of a child born to a family pivotal to the Children of God, or "The Family"; a cult organisation based on some twisted interpretations of Christian gospel.

There is overt sexual content in the book, and descriptions of children brought up in a sexualised environment, with authoritarian discipline and privations of scarcity and poverty.

I think I would have not understood this quite so well if I had not already read about various social controls and the nature of Domestic Abuse and trauma healing. The descriptions clearly outline the methods that were used to create submissiveness, dependence, and unquestioning loyalty in people whose fundamental rights were being violated regularly.

Honestly the whole concept in such an extreme social context just makes me consider the societal norms and methods of oppression that we have in our daily lives and just normalise.. "that's just how things are".

It's a powerful account, but not really a fun read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Cancer, Deadnaming, and Violence

sapphisms's review

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Religious bigotry

shostakofish's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

playswithstring's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This book was tough. It’s hundreds of pages of abuse. I knew what the Children of God cult was about after reading Uncultured (Daniella Mestyanek) last year, but Faith Jones goes so much more into detail about the abuse she suffered. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, and Deportation