Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Não Contes a Ninguém by Gregg Olsen

73 reviews

arealpageturner's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

jennay's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

5.0

Such a horrific true story... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Body horror, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Child abuse, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Fatphobia, Excrement, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Blood, Bullying, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, and Violence

amberlinanderson's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

3.0

This is a very intriguing story. Sickening for sure! I didn’t care for the way it was written, though. It probably could have been half the size. A ton of unnecessary repetition. Also, the title is misleading. They may be bonded in sisterhood right now, but they were completely dissociated growing up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Torture, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Rape, Suicide, and Homophobia

heathermarie08's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

This is a horrible story of an evil mother, her brave children and victims. I usually enjoy true crime but for some reason did not enjoy this book as much. It read a bit slow and I felt like could've been a shorter book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Bullying

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Child death, Excrement, and Fatphobia

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cancer, and Alcohol

erikathomas998's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Child abuse, Abandonment, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Confinement, and Death

wildroseoftexas's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

4.0

Heartbreaking. 

The author did an excellent job putting a horrific situation into a book. The book read like a novel and I often caught myself thinking there was no way this wasn’t fiction from a seasoned thriller author. 

I took one star because the timeline jumps back and forth were sometimes hard to follow and I had to reread a page to make sure I was following correctly. 

An important read to understand and be aware of signs of abuse and why victims, especially children, may struggle to ask for help or give light to the truth of what’s happening to them. 

Many many many trigger warnings. And don’t Google the mom after you’re done reading unless you want to scream and rage over the injustice of it all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Child death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

melly82092's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I don't think I have ever read a story more painful and gut wrenching then this one. The Author did an excellent job re-telling the events through the POV of those involved. This one is going to haunt me for quite awhile, I can feel it... 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Drug use, Cancer, and Blood

mtehan7's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

camheartsbooksss's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.0

Greg Olson did a great job with researching and telling this true story. The story itself is sickening. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Drug abuse, Death, Bullying, Body shaming, Violence, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Child death, and Murder