Reviews tagging 'Child death'

If You Tell by Gregg Olsen

96 reviews

your_geekygf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

2.0

This book is a true story but it is unbelievable. It is graphic, sad and frustrating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer and Rape

ashleyneidick's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

3.0

The stories told in this book are truly, absolutely horrific. You can’t help but feel for the victims. But the way the book is written makes everything feel pieced together, which it is to an extent, but there are a ton of blanks that could have been filled in that weren’t - such as almost nothing written about the police and why they didn’t act sooner, and so much was left out of the trials. It was hard to get through and finish this book for more than one reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia

dsimon22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.5

This was an incredibly hard book to listen to and finish. It’s a true story so it made it hard to continue knowing this happened and that these girls had to go through all of this. I am disgusted by all the mother did and how sick and twisted she was but I’m even more sickened that her husband never noticed half of was was going on and that he allowed her to manipulate him into being somewhat his accomplice. I’m angered by their sentencing because they both in my opinion deserve to be in prison a lot longer than what they were sentenced!!! Overall a well written book just not sure this is my kind of read I could read over and over

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

elizabeth_25's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Grief, and Murder

redrose90's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.25

Can be triggering for some

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content and Vomit

Minor: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, and Excrement

katiemcmahon's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Death

nuuamuikkunen's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

2.75

Tykkään siitä miten Gregg Olsen kirjottaa tositapahtumista kuin ne ois fiktiota. Mutta se misogynian ja fat shaming oli ihan överiä tässä kirjassa! Et naiset haluaa vaan olla äitejä ja jos lihot 10 kiloa oot ihan kamalan läski. Yök.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Medical content

bell4trixx's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

3.0

For anyone who is in to true crime. There are parts of this book that is interesting and informative, it does seem like the author did a lot of work researching what happened, but this book could have used a better editor. By the end of it, it really seemed to drag on, I think some of the stories of abuse could have been edited out..

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Excrement, and Medical content

If you are triggered by abuse not a good read. Good read if you’re in the mood for an in-depth true crime on an abusive family/mother

kayleedenise0's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, and Murder

priscillarobock's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail