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Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment
Moderate: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence
Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual violence
Darling Girls is out April 23rd! Thank you St. Martin's Press and Netgalley or my e-arc!
Content warnings: verbal, physical, sexual and emotional abuse; all the negatives of foster care; neglect; malnutrition; death of a child; and likely more I am forgetting at the moment!!
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual violence, Violence
I absolutely devoured this book! I will say please k is there are triggers for this book in my opinion and the biggest one being child abuse.
Right when I thought this book couldn’t get anymore dark the ending just jumped out and made my jaw drop to the ground! And that alone gave it five stars for me. However the entire book was so incredibly done. I love all the shocking events and turns of events. I loved trying to figure out what happened to Amy along with the three girls. Just bravo on this book 👏🏻
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Alcohol
Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Blood, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Child death
Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Death of parent
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse
Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Abandonment
Minor: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol
In this way, Sally Hepworth's story is not just one about weaving together a tale for the reader to enjoy, but we are actively put within the investigative role, and behind the scenes, we know even less than we thought was the case. Much like how in art, an artist will utilize leading lines and negative space that gives the viewer a forced, cramped perspective and leads us in a specific direction, Sally's own writing does the very same: in Darling Girls, forced perspective is combined with unreliable narrators centering the mystery right through to the very end with a surprising, demented, and disturbing twist ending within the very last pages.
An absolutely delightful read the entire way through with distressing situations that made me cringe in horror.
Thank you Netgalley, Sally Hepworth, and St. Martin's Press for this arc!
Further thoughts and spoilers can be read on my blogspot: https://booksifixion.blogspot.com/2024/01/darling-girls-sally-hepworth-review-and.html
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence
Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC
Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment