Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest by Gregg Olsen

10 reviews

sersi's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Confinement, and Medical content

hattiereadssomanybooks_x's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Eating disorder

danimacuk's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.0

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Graphic: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Physical abuse, Murder, Confinement, and Chronic illness

Minor: Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexism, and Suicide

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

     The narration was amazing for a non-fiction book. The book also kept me interested and engaged. I would have liked to know what happened with the sisters' estate in more clear terms. I'm shocked but not that this woman was never truly stopped. It's horrifying. 
       As someone who's struggled with disordered eating, I know how little function you have when you limit calories to an extreme. So I can understand how she manipulated people when their brains weren't functioning properly. When you're not getting enough food your body shuts down complex thoughts and the like, to direct calories/nutrition to essential tasks like breathing.
Overall a very interesting and horrifying book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Medical content, Body horror, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Excrement, Confinement, Body shaming, Death, and Chronic illness

amandat's review against another edition

I love true crime but the subject of this one intentionally starved her patients, which I found just too disturbing to continue.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Eating disorder

bookswithmybulldog's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

3.75

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Graphic: Gore, Excrement, Torture, Confinement, Medical trauma, Vomit, Physical abuse, and Eating disorder

mcnetn3's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

1.0

Repetitive themes and imager  throughout

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Eating disorder

queenbeemimi's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.5

A little too conversational at times— I question if the research could really be good enough to render dialogue or feelings so precisely— but a good time, for all that it’s about something horrible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Eating disorder

bayleyburgess's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad medium-paced

3.5

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Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Murder

atariakana's review

dark informative slow-paced

3.75

An interesting if at times a bit slow read. Good for true crime fans that are more interested in the crime than the criminal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Death

This is a nonfiction book about a woman who ran a "clinic" claiming that extreme fasting woud fix the body's ailments. As such there are graphic depictions of starvation and its effects.