Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

28 reviews

shieldbearer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

Rating memoirs always feels strange to me, but this is not a pure memoir, this is also a nonfictional account, and it is on those grounds I find fault. I am aware the author says upfront that several events around the events of the Langley trial/murder are composite, compressed or otherwise altered, but frankly I deeply disliked the aspect where the author is clearly ascribing and assuming the thought processes of the real people involved in this. "[y person] MUST HAVE [felt/thought z thing]" got extremely, tediously old. It also got irritating when the author frequently ascribed personalities and descriptions onto people we could get only glimpses from fact. Why is every person we have such glimpses of imagined by the author to be young and naive?? I would much have preferred a straight forward account of all the contradictions and complexities, even if it was more complicated. The writing is beautiful but I couldn't get past the framing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Whew, this book is so so hard, and probably because it's so well-written. I think it's as close to poetry as prose comes. So much research, so much hurt, so much trauma. Incredible. Would read anything Marzano-Lesnevich wrote.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Fatphobia, Self harm, and Vomit

If child abuse is not good for you to read about, this is definitely a book to skip. The descriptions are extremely hard.

akswhy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

4.25

Come for the true crime case, stay for the interwoven memoir.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia

thornthistle's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, and Murder

Moderate: Rape

selketjewett's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This was not an easy book to read. It’s pretty graphic and deals with some really traumatic material. That being said, the writing and the way this book is constructed is full of emotion and vulnerability and not like much I’ve read before. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Murder

paigeno's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

humanpuke's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Incest, Pedophilia, and Rape

iadoreforks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, and Murder

loridori70's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Wow. This book is so complicated and multi-faceted and the author does an amazing job of taking you through her complex feelings of this case as she peels the onion back on the childhood of the accused and her own childhood trauma. The two become intertwined as the process unfolds, and she is brutally honest with her thoughts and feelings throughout the process. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Murder

fbzreadswhatever's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Murder

Minor: Eating disorder and Abortion