Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Нянька. Меня воспитывал серийный убийца by Jennifer Jordan, Liza Rodman

15 reviews

mstjohn813's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Murder, and Emotional abuse

devynreadsnovels's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Addiction, Death, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Drug use, Suicide, Rape, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

librarymouse's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.5

The Babysitter shows life in Provincetown MA in the 1906s through a mix of personal memoir and synthesizing a timeline of Tony Costa's life and crimes. There was an astounding amount of casual drug use, alcoholism, and a combination of the two, and the manic energy that cocktail of drugs creates was captured really well by Rodman's descriptions of the adults in her life. It was fully not the intention of the book, but having friends from MA and fond memories of visiting them, the vivid description of Portuguese foods and familiar locations made me smile. The happy memories Liza Rodman shares are intimate and nostalgic. This book is written with stunning detail, showing both the best and the worst the era and location had to offer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Rape, Murder, Suicide, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Gore, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Cannibalism, Car accident, and Homophobia

Minor: Incest

foreverinastory's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.0

This was interesting.

CWs: child abuse/neglect, murder, drug use/abuse, addiction, rape, sexual violence, emotional abuse, sexual assault, parental abandonment, domestic abuse, gore, dismemberment, violence, alcoholism, death, physical abuse, suicide, mental illness, adult/minor relationship, toxic relationship, blood, homophobia, f-slur, misogyny, sexual content. Moderate: animal cruelty, kidnapping, pedophilia, suicidal thoughts, torture, suicide attempt, injury/injury detail, fatphobia, body shaming, self harm, abortion, vomit, excrement.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Death, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Self harm, Abortion, Excrement, Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Body shaming, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, and Fatphobia

cate_with_a_c's review against another edition

dark reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Dark and chilling but very good. Right off the bat it’s made clear that Liza was emotionally and verbally abused by her mother and took every opportunity to leave her kids with a sitter. 
Told by two narratives it alternates between Liza the girl being babysat and her life and Tony the babysitter. The signal phrases hinting towards sad and upsetting content is very clear and gives the reader a chance to skip over a paragraph if needed while still understanding what happened. 
Very interesting and I think it was as respectfully told as it could be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Rape

tarynwanderer's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide

nellkristen's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

2.5

It started pretty interesting but I got pretty bored pretty fast. Once I lost interest, I couldn’t get it back. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Abortion, Death of parent, and Excrement

sblake26's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Child abuse, Alcoholism, and Addiction

melanie_page's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

The most bizarre character in The Babysitter is not Tony, but his child bride, Avis. At fourteen, Avis starts dating Tony, who in his twenties often tried to garner the attention of early-teen girls. Together they get pregnant on purpose to force her mother to sign off on their marriage. By fifteen she’s a wife and mother. Later, with three children, she and Tony divorce, but she continues to help Tony, giving him rides and lying to police for him, despite the sexual abuse she faced while married to him. At his trial for multiple murders, Avis blows kisses to Tony when she enters the courtroom with her boyfriend. She often refuses to shower, clean her home (police note there is dog shit on the floor and refuse to sit on the furniture), or properly care for their children.

Check out the full review here: https://grabthelapels.com/2021/05/25/the-babysitter-by-lisa-rodman-and-jennifer-jordan/

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Murder, Violence, and Emotional abuse

It's a true crime book in which the killer dismembers women and coerces his child bride (age 14) into sexual situations in which she does not want to participate. You don't get everything in great detail (I'm comparing to a book like Missoula), but there are descriptions.

taiy's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

4.0

Interesting format and perspective to tell this story. Definitely a dark one all around. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence