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akeivens's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Medical content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Child abuse, Murder, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Grief
Minor: Self harm and Cancer
madsreads_'s review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Vomit, Mental illness, Murder, Alcoholism, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Suicide, Bullying, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Toxic relationship, and Violence
thesaltiestlibrarian's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Mental illness, Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Cursing, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Cancer
erica_reads_things's review against another edition
4.75
As far as the writing goes, it was pretty well done and attention grabbing. Interesting to listen to, though it does skip around the timelines quite often so it was hard at times to keep track of where things were and how small story tangents fit in. I had to rewind the audio a couple of times to relisten and focus on what was happening. Small qualm with the overall structure or else I would have given it 5 stars. Very tastefully and respectfully done.
Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Confinement, Homophobia, Vomit, Drug use, Fatphobia, Grief, and Excrement
Minor: Medical content, Stalking, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy
autumnwhite's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Torture, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Gore, Gaslighting, Violence, Vomit, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Murder, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, and Drug use
maxgdy's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Torture, Body shaming, Excrement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Vomit
library_dreamer's review against another edition
4.0
It took me a long time to figure out how I was going to rate this one. If this had been fiction, I would have DNF pretty early on because it would have been too unnecessarily grotesque and would have made me question the sanity of the author. Stephen King at his worst doesn't have a character nearly as twisted as Shelley Knotek.
The fact that it was true crime held me to it because it became something I needed to see to completion, but it took me so long to read this because I needed frequent breaks. I knew going in that there would be a lot of abuse and murder (the title gives that away) and I had googled Knotek before starting, so I knew I wasn't getting myself into a feel-good family drama. But I was not prepared for the extreme level of details of physical and emotional abuse. If I were to find out that 75% was fabricated, the other 25% would still be enough to make me sick.
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Murder, Violence, Vomit, Domestic abuse, and Drug abuse
greycells's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, Emotional abuse, Violence, Child abuse, and Child death
Moderate: Body shaming and Vomit
Minor: Cancer