Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

5 reviews

ericasbookshelves's review against another edition

informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

I’ve read multiple books from the author of Go Ask Alice and I’d heard rumblings about her character and her deceptions before but never fully looked into it. I thought this book was super compelling and fast paced, I found myself coninuously wanting to reach for it. Learning more about Beatrice Sparks and the length of her lies and more about the actual stories behind the books left me a bit horrified if I’m being honest. I think if you’ve read any of the books, especially Go Ask Alice or Jays Journal(bonus points if you read them when you were a preteen/teen), this book could be interesting to you. If you haven’t, I feel like this book would work a little less for you

 Like other reviewers, I do find its lack of citations and sources to be a bit frustrating. I get where the author is coming from to an extent when he says they’re easily accessible with web searches or phone calls but it would have been nice to at least have some things sourced. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Child death, Drug abuse, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Addiction

Moderate: Trafficking, Animal death, Blood, Rape, Animal cruelty, Violence, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

sihaya's review

dark informative mysterious fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Drug abuse, Suicide, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Child death, and Abandonment

Much of this is spoken about in an affirming and thoughtful way in juxtaposition to the original text which used the subject matter as a scare tactic and was wildly offensive.

firxtly's review

dark informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

3.25

It’s dark and it’s creepy and Emerson is absolutely hilarious with every twist of the plot. Unmask Alice is not a piece of investigative journalism, but it is still entirely fascinating and insightful. It takes a special kind of writer to make you laugh out loud while reading about alleged child sacrifice 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Death, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Drug abuse, Excrement, Grief, Gun violence, Cannibalism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Medical content, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Abortion, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Classism, Racial slurs, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Religious bigotry, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

Moderate: Rape, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcohol, War, Abortion, and Alcoholism

Minor: Cannibalism, Bullying, Antisemitism, and Homophobia

cucuriouscarnifex's review

challenging dark informative tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Rape, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Gun violence, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Racism, Grief, Bullying, Child death, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Infidelity, Animal death, Antisemitism, Gore, and Kidnapping