Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Written In Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black

14 reviews

carolinamcorreia's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Rape, Blood, Gore, Torture, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

radfordmanor's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Murder, Violence, Drug abuse, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Child death, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Emotional abuse, and Medical content

surefinewhatever_'s review

challenging dark informative slow-paced

3.0

Okay soo, I initially DNFed this one because I found myself growing bored and feeling bogged down by the more heady-science-y bits, but then about a week later, I found myself wanting to listen to the book again. 😅 SO I finished! I stand by my initial statement that the author reading her own work is fantastic, albeit it does sound a little like one long Ted Talk. Admittedly, this aspect actually worked for me. There are some really challenging anecdotes in here, and of course some light Copaganda sprinkled throughout, but that’s to be expected from a forensic scientists perspective. Overall, I learned about some of the ways our bodies tells the story of our life (and death). And I will never stop thinking about my teeth as the only (constantly) visible part of my skeleton.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse, Violence, Addiction, Child death, Drug use, Sexual violence, Torture, Death, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, and Physical abuse

kayo32's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Drug abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Suicide