Reviews with content warning for Rape - Know My Name

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bloomingbookworm's review

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challenging emotional hopeful sad

5.0

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mimo_'s review against another edition

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4.5

its hard to review a memoir bc its not just a made up story but smn that actually happened and i dont want to discount her experience but i will say i liked her writing and how she goes through everything that happened to her and the effects of it

i did leave a lot of rants in a buddy read and i did end up googling the case and reading the entire wiki page jdsjxndnxn

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justagirlwithbooks's review against another edition

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4.75

“We don’t fight for our own happy endings. We fight to say you can’t. We fight for accountability. We fight to establish precedent. We fight because we pray we’ll be the last ones to feel this kind of pain.”

I honestly have no words. This is a phenomenal book. But, it is quite heavy as well, due to Miller's narrative style and the subject matter. I listened to this as an audiobook and the experience was something else. I only have one quote highlighted here, but there are so many others that I could have used. This book made me angry, frustrated, sad, disgusted, and also happy for so many reasons. The suffering that victims experience is unimaginable. The justice system that perpetuates this is also absolutely disgusting and it needs to change. If more people speak out, and write stories that need to be told, it just might do that.

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wiebke_0603's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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jessicavaldez1115's review

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4.25

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blizzardinsummer's review

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad

5.0

Thank you, Chanel, for sharing your story and standing up for fellow survivors of sexual assault. Your words are powerful. You are powerful.

This was one of the most heart wrenching and beautifully written memoirs I’ve read. It’s a must read for everyone, especially survivors and people who know a survivor, and trust me, even if you don’t think you know one, you likely do, they just haven’t shared that part of their lives with you.

And if you are a survivor yourself, know that you are not alone. Chanel is with you. I am with you. All of us are with you.

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ninahuynh's review against another edition

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emotional informative inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

Chanel Miller is such a great storyteller. I remember when this case broke in the news. I did not realize the incident happened just months before I myself attended college! Hearing Miller tell us her story, displaying her anger, frustration, sadness, numbness, loneliness, hopelessness really brought power to her story, especially in Emily Doe's Victim Impact Statement at the end of the book.

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