Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

If You Tell by Gregg Olsen

43 reviews

mwass's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, and Murder

mtehan7's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

cxxitlyn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

1.5

The writing in this book really ruined it for me. It felt very poor for the first half, after that it just seemed I had grown “used” to it. The events described are horrific, and it’s hard to remember that these are things people truly lived through and experienced. Reading their story is really the only thing that kept me reading. Their events are told in detail though, so this book is not for the faint of heart as some of the things described are incredibly hard to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

nerfie's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

payt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, and Toxic friendship

mkrauth12's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Gaslighting

turtle_camille's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Murder

soupysammy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Brutal, scary, and heartbreaking. 
I felt afraid reading this and imagining that this could be real life and is real life is unbelievably terrifying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

ka_ke's review against another edition

dark emotional informative slow-paced

3.0

I didn’t realize If You Tell was non-fiction until I actually started reading it. But the content of this book reaches a level of dark monstrosity that not even Stephen King himself would write it. The Knotek case is a once-in-a-lifetime look into psychopathy with plenty of theories as to how Shelly Knotek’s early childhood impacted her through out her life until her imprisonment. It also shows just how effective abusive individuals can be with their victims. For Shelly to claim having cancer for literal decades with no one questioning her, its almost amazing to learn about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

erica_reads_things's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Such an incredible story. The things these girls went through are absolutely horrific. What a story of strength and resilience though. Remarkable.

As far as the writing goes, it was pretty well done and attention grabbing. Interesting to listen to, though it does skip around the timelines quite often so it was hard at times to keep track of where things were and how small story tangents fit in. I had to rewind the audio a couple of times to relisten and focus on what was happening. Small qualm with the overall structure or else I would have given it 5 stars. Very tastefully and respectfully done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Excrement, Vomit, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Stalking, and Pregnancy