Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Mon ami Dahmer by Derf Backderf, Fanny Soubiran

4 reviews

lucykated's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

4.0

Heartbreaking and terrifying. One peer's view of the childhood and teen years of an actively unloved and consequently broken boy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Stalking, Abortion, and Abandonment

chaoticbeing's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

THIS is what a true crime novel should be about. It doesn’t feel like some flashy, exploitative story about Dahmer. Very quickly it becomes less and less about him and more and more of a commentary about how small town Americana leaves the most exploited and abused behind to keep up an image. 
The movie adaptation is bad though. Don’t bother.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Vomit and Abortion

amarj33t_5ingh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

4.0

An insightful gaze into Dahmer's past to argue he wasn't born evil but made evil by his dysfunctional family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

rchains's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder