Reviews tagging 'Rape'

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

19 reviews

pun1sher's review against another edition

funny informative reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pedophilia, Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Death, Child abuse, and Blood

All the content warnings (except for rape) are meant for the corpse and case descriptions

catamongstthepages's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Murder, Rape, and Death

The book describes multiple violent deaths in the context of forensic examination. Regarding child sexual abuse:

the author recounts her own rape at nine years old in chapter 8. To skip this, when she mentions her own Harris lines at age nine, skip to the next section break.

raslowrie's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Child death, and Sexual assault

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

exra's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Transphobia

earla's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

Medical non-fiction mixed with true crime, with many graphic and disturbing stories

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, and Pedophilia

Minor: Torture

atalea's review

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, and Pedophilia

simone12's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

havelock's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Death

Minor: Rape