Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

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

2 reviews

sophiemartin's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Body horror, Car accident, Medical content, Suicide, Torture, Terminal illness, Genocide, Child death, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Blood, Physical abuse, Rape, Gun violence, Death of parent, Grief, Death, Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Violence

acrosstheskyinstars's review

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.5

This was an excellent non-fiction book written by a forensic Anthropologist working in Scotland. I will say that a regular audience picking this book up might find it a bit boring and morbid. But if you are someone that finds medical content fascinating and enjoys anatomy, this is definitely the book for you. I have a background in Anthropology (including some forensic Anthropology), so I was able to connect with a lot of what the author discussed. If you have that background, I highly recommend this book. It was absolutely amazing to hear the very important work that forensic Anthropologists are able to do. With only fragments of bone, they can often determine how someone died and give a body back its identity. They are even able to do this in cold case from decades past. Truly remarkable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Car accident, Child abuse, Medical content, Self harm, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Suicide, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Pedophilia, and Pregnancy