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sammiesavors's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Pedophilia, Violence, Alcoholism, and Murder
Moderate: Rape and Homophobia
dudajoia's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Violence and Murder
Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Pedophilia, and Mental illness
Minor: Animal death and Homophobia
emersonseyeball's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Gaslighting, Blood, Alcohol, Death, Child abuse, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Gore, and Murder
Moderate: Ableism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Car accident, Chronic illness, Gore, Abandonment, Cursing, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Classism, Domestic abuse, Rape, Pedophilia, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual violence
meleequeen's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Murder, Racial slurs, and Racism
Moderate: Rape and Homophobia
avamccluer's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Murder, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Violence, and Pedophilia
strange's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Pedophilia, Death, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Child abuse, Grief, Mental illness, and Rape
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racial slurs, Cancer, Blood, and Addiction
Please, please, please do not push yourself to read this if you in any way feel you’re not readycherryredmarlene's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Violence, Ableism, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship
akissforcatullus's review against another edition
3.5
My biggest qualm is how noticeably biased this book can be towards Perry. Now, this goes without saying that Perry’s tragic life does deserve sympathy, but, it just seems unreliable at times; invoking slight scepticism and concern as to whether something actually happened or was just contrived or hypothesised by the writer. This applies, too, with the Clutter family’s personal life. There are parts I feel that were added and elongated insincerely, like Bonnie’s illnesses and strifes. Also want to add, this book did initiate this momentary hyper-vigilance on my part. I usually am a kind of vigilant person, but upon reading this book I felt an already existing fear become substantiated and intensified. I can’t say it’s necessarily a bad thing, but it certainly was haunting.
Regardless of my personal negative emotion towards this book, it deserves credit for the sheer amount of effort put into it as well as its execution. I commend the writing for keeping me fairly interested despite my hesitance in continuing—of course certain chunks of information felt at times superfluous, but I appreciated it nonetheless. The unreliability, the—what essentially was—confirmation bias, the gruesomeness of the murders, the horrid themes, the occasionally tedious bits of information, all retracted a 4 star rating. I also didn’t feel pleased with giving it a 4 or higher star as I don’t particularly enjoy novels of this nature, no matter how well it may be written. I hope this review is coherent. I’m too tired to map out exactly what I wanted to say as well as what was said.
There’s a lot missing out. There’s a lot more I want to express, like my deep anguish for the poor family, and how certain parts of the novel will probably remain cemented in my mind, but I’ll leave it for you, dear reader, to experience it for yourself. (Edit: I advise you not to, actually. Thinking back on it now, I could’ve lived life perfectly fine having not read this book. So, no, despite how dedicated the author was, this is not a book I recommend.)
Graphic: Racism, Toxic friendship, Murder, Violence, Racial slurs, Child abuse, and Death
Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse
Minor: Suicide, Homophobia, and Pedophilia