Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford

14 reviews

trademark's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

delz's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Ashley C. Ford has put on paper a very personal at times, heart wrenching account of her volatile family. *trigger warnings for a single (1 page) rape(not described graphically) and domestic violence.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Pedophilia, Racism, Forced institutionalization, and Injury/Injury detail

emfass's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, and Pregnancy

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

 - I've been following Ford's writing online for many years, so I knew this book would be good. If you need further proof, though, I listened to the entire audiobook while stuck in traffic for ten hours and was riveted the whole time.
- SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER is an exploration of not only growing up and finding yourself, but finding your parents, too - the good and the bad parts of them. It's a book about loving difficult people, and holding conflicting parts of yourself and your loved ones at the same time.
- One thing that really stuck out to me is the way Ford illustrates how confusing childhood can be, when you're often punished for breaking rules you didn't know existed and the adults don't give any further explanation. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment