Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

If You Tell by Gregg Olsen

87 reviews

n_binversie99's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Violence, Gaslighting, Murder, Torture, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Mental illness, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Suicide, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, and Vomit

Minor: Gun violence, Incest, and Animal cruelty

tishas_bookshelf's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

3.5

This book was a hard read. Based on a true story, it was a sad, infuriating and difficult 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Child abuse

nhmardini's review

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

maddness22's review

dark sad fast-paced

0.25

I do not respect this book in the slightest. It's an attempt to capitalize on one family's horrible tragedy during the height of the true crime fascination. This is poorly written without any substance to the cruelty it outlines. There's no additional psychological insight into the mother's sadistic nature, no actual mention of the "bonds of sisterhood" until the final 10% of the book and even then it's a rather weak grab, and the timeline of events is written in the worst and most confusing manner. This was literally just composed for shock value and really only lists the acts of crimes committed by the narcissistic and sadistic mother and her pathetic husband. 

If it was meant as a warning for Shelly's release or even as a toolkit for others to recognize how severe abuse can be so subtle in its nature to integrate so fully in a victim's life, the message could've been conveyed with about 200 less pages and repetitive drawn out torture scenes. However, these lessons are barely conveyed successfully anyways. The writing is vague, confusing, and the author truly uses the word "niggled" un-ironically at one point. Like? Seriously? That's not even a real word and it sounds childish at best. 

Skip this shock value torture nonsense. Just know their mother was vile and we need to believe in victims. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Child abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

theycallmeriss's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Child abuse, Murder, Violence, Torture, Homophobia, and Emotional abuse

csimonsensays's review

dark tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Grief, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Violence

cooncemarissa's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Vomit

jguiley's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Bullying, Death, Body shaming, Murder, Torture, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

hehashcraft's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.0

The writing is fine but the content is so horrific. Cannot believe people like that woman actually exist in this world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Murder, Slavery, Death, Physical abuse, Bullying, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Violence

serenaann's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Blood, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Abandonment, Child death, Sexual violence, Violence, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Murder, Sexual harassment, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Vomit, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Addiction, Cursing, Excrement, Medical trauma, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Gun violence