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The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors by Carla Valentine

2 reviews

_rowan_'s review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Drug use, Medical content, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Death, Miscarriage, Murder, Car accident, and Eating disorder

hallsifer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

3.5

 A good book with a very fun writing style! Some of the jokes didn't quite land with me, but that's just personal taste. Be warned, there is a lot of child death/miscarriage talk in sections of the book both as part of the authors life and as part of the nature of the book.

Overall a great read! Certainly staying in my little death reading list! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Medical content, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Infidelity

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Ableism

This book is a book about dead bodies, their dissection and the authors own life with it - it has a lot of potentially upsetting content about suicide victims, child death, natural decay, etc. Please read with caution if you're sensitive to any of these potential things!!