Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
25 reviews
blueberry's review against another edition
3.0
Moderate: Murder, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Rape, and Violence
sylvestra's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Medical trauma, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, and Death
sydneylittlefield's review
5.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Incest, Medical content, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Sexual assault
ginac's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Medical content and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Medical content
Minor: Rape
aliteracja's review
Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Medical content
Moderate: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Bullying, and Pedophilia
flowchelle's review
4.0
Graphic: Death, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Bullying, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Murder
laurenkimoto's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Self harm, Incest, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, and Pedophilia
citrinuke's review
4.0
Graphic: Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Violence, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Death
freethefrican's review
4.0
As someone who is just getting into non-fiction, it’s a little difficult for me to be overly critical as I am just learning what I’m looking for and what I want from the genre. That being said, I don't have a lot of criticism for this book. I enjoyed it. I thought the writing style was pretty good in how it read like non-fiction and I liked that a lot of effort was put into crafting a cohesive story from such a painful experience.
Graphic: Death, Pedophilia, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Chronic illness
semeyers's review against another edition
4.0
Hidden Valley Road was riveting, heartbreaking, and infuriating all in one. The Galvin family, made up of Mimi, Don, and their 12(!!) children - 10 boys and 2 girls - had the extraordinary misfortune to have 6 of their boys diagnosed with schizophrenia at a time when mental illnesses were treated as shameful and were not well understood by the medical community. We learn that even having a single child sent to a mental institution could ostracize an entire family from the community. As a result, the Galvin parents desperately try to keep up with the Jones' while their home life is falling apart. Don throws himself into his work and charitable causes, while Mimi focuses so much on her sick boys - determined to keep them at home - that her well children are left to endure horrifying neglect and abuse by their siblings.
Throughout the novel you bounce back and forth between the family and the medical professionals working behind the scenes, researching treatments for schizophrenia. You learn that the treatments were sometimes worse than the symptoms themselves and regularly led to patient deaths from the side effects.
As stated in other reviews, the author here does have a clear bias towards one of the family members. Whether from a true bias or just as a consequence of only having access to so few living Galvins, I could not tell. I also felt the author went a little easy on Don, often laying blame solely on Mimi unfairly. These instances are what made me take off a star.
Overall, this one is a highly recommended read. It is a heavy one though!
Graphic: Mental illness and Addiction
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, and Sexual assault