Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

12 reviews

miachimochi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Sexual content, Self harm, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Sexual violence, Medical content, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Car accident, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

johoha93's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Rape

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

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

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

Minor: Fatphobia, Vomit, Self harm, and Bullying

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

paigeno's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

coley28's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Violence, Child abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child death, Death, and Eating disorder

albernikolauras's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

The way this book is written tears you apart. Lesnevich definitely put her time and research into this book in a way that makes it clear the imprint the case left on her. The indepth research of the case overlaid with her own story was very well-done. Neither overpowered the other. Once I started this book, it was hard to put down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

Moderate: Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Sexual assault, and Violence

alisonscott1010's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Murder, Violence, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

auteaandtales's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence

bmessierlegendre's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.75

Ce livre m’attendait dans ma bibliothèque depuis plusieurs mois, parce que j’appréhendais vraiment sa lecture. L’autrice nous guide à travers sa réflexion sur la peine de mort par un témoignage très très personnel, plein d’empathie et de remise en question de ses propres points de vue, soulignant le fait que rien n’est complètement blanc ou noir. Sujet très difficile, troublant même, mais tellement bien écrit. J’ai été fascinée, j’ai lu les 500 pages en juste un peu plus d’une journée, comme en apnée.
*Trigger warning: On parle dans ce livre de pédophilie, avec des passages et des témoignages très détaillés qui peuvent être choquants. Je trouve que c’est fait par contre avec beaucoup de respect, et ce n’est pas du tout sensationnaliste.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence