Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford

15 reviews

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cancer, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Cursing, Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Abandonment, Physical abuse, and Stalking

bashsbooks's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Ford's descriptions are cinematic; rarely before have I been so enthralled by the way a writer describes people and emotions. Truly, this memoir is a thoughful and complex picture of Ford's youth and family, and hearing her read it herself made it all the more personal. I felt as though I stepped into some of these scenes and lived beside her. 

I also greatly enjoyed the interview at the end between Ford and Clint Smith; it is always enlightening to hear great writers discuss their craft. (I may listen to that portion again after reading Smith's book, since he discusses his own word in-depth, too.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Rape

Moderate: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Miscarriage

Minor: Cancer, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, and Stalking

Incarceration also comes up a lot, since the author's father is in prison for most of the book.

rachelbug's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, and Emotional abuse

nicoleherz's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Hits equally hard for those with strained mother-daughter or father-daughter relationships. Definitely had a good cry about ⅔ in.
Beautiful writing, reminded me of the glass castle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, and Cancer

ekmook's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, Rape, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, and Stalking

Minor: Blood

raynaaskiverr's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Sexual content, and Rape

autozone's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This should be required reading for everyone and anyone.

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“To the world, he was a bad man. To me, he was my dad who did a bad thing. I was still trying to figure out what it meant to love someone who had done such a bad thing, but I did love him. And that was enough for me to show up, and say so to his face.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Cancer, Child abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexism, Sexual content, Racism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Stalking

sadieh's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Death, Medical content, Grief, Cancer, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual harassment and Sexual content

paigeno's review

emotional reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Medical content, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

reading_rainbow_with_chris's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

 

“Somebody’s Daughter” by Ashley C. Ford

***Content Warning: sexual assault, verbal abuse, physical abuse, gaslighting 

Ashley C. Ford grew up in Indiana with her mother, her siblings, and the knowledge that her father was in prison. From an early age seemed to be seeking a way to connect with adults, to be something to them. Ford’s memoir was startling in how relatively simple she kept it without making the style feel juvenile, a tricky balance to strike which she expertly handled. As a result, the rawness of her experiences shine. I was also impressed that the tone of the experience did not sink beyond recovery at any point in the narrative. Ford recounts multiple forms of abuse and trauma from her childhood, including but not limited to verbal abuse, sexual abuse, and copious amounts of gaslighting. In other memoirs of similar content, the book becomes heavy and difficult to bear the weight of the story. Ford is honest about her experiences and sometimes leans into them as factual happenings rather than focusing on her own emotions of the experiences, creating a balance which allows her to return from darkness and keep our experience as readers balanced. This is not to say that Ford doesn’t utilize her own emotion in the narrative; she does so with powerful impact, landing craters of feeling at just the right time. But how and when she reveals it feels strategic in a way that serves the memoir beautifully. This is an excellent example of memoir that I will highly recommend for fans of the genre or for those who are simply interested in human experience.  

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Rape, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship