Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

17 reviews

emersonseyeball's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

somelibrarychick's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Rape, Alcoholism, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

em09's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Animal death

cherryredmarlene's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

i changed the rating from 4 to 5 stars because i think and talk about this so much it would be weird if i’d only give it 4

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Content Warnings

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

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

3.5

Well, where to start? I can’t say I haven’t been dreading writing a review—this being because I feel as though I cannot put properly into words what I feel. I’ll try, though. Finishing the book kindled an   extreme heavy-heartedness, as well as a mourning-feeling for the family that deserved so much more time. The final paragraph of this novel tugged at my heart strings, and left me with an intense sense of emptiness. 

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.) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Toxic friendship, Murder, Violence, Racial slurs, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicide, Homophobia, and Pedophilia

narpetcards's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

houndoflove1985's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Pedophilia, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, and Mental illness

Minor: Abandonment, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, and Racism