Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

If You Tell by Gregg Olsen

88 reviews

kimmykelly's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Excrement, Outing, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Vomit, Gaslighting, Gore, Violence, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

twistykris's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

3.75

The abuse and torture so many endured at the hands of Shelly (and Dave) is absolutely horrific. A very difficult read for the content involved (PLEASE check trigger/ content warnings).

I understand how difficult it must have been to compile all of this information from multiple people, but at times the book felt very repetitive and used a lot of unnecessary metaphors. 

Also, I have

VERY little sympathy for Dave. Yes, he was abused by Shelly and being a victim of someone so terrifying can alter your mentality, I know. But you CANNOT tell me he didn't know that what she was doing was so fucking wrong. He literally shot and killed his own nephew because she told him to. He watched his wife abuse her children and grown adults. He says he didn't know bleach was bad for the skin and thought it was fine that Shelly made Ron soak his feet in boiling water and bleach?? HUH?! And the fact they're both OUT AND FREE? Disgusting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism and Animal cruelty

cfarron's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Homophobia, Child death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Murder

monica0309's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Bullying, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Blood, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Body horror

jenni_sunderland's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

3.0

Why the fuck did no one stop this woman 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Death, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Torture, Physical abuse, Violence, and Confinement

alexperry8's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.5

The author sometimes goes over something multiple times and the story isn't always linear

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Murder, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Child abuse

mjohansson7's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Torture, and Toxic relationship

lisa_butler79's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

If you Tell - Gregg Olsen

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I needed a day too get over this book before I wrote a review. Quite literally WTF! I actually have no words for the abuse that Shelly inflicted on her children and best friend. I have no words for the husband that allowed this too happen and turned a blind eye because he was also so scared or her. I'm shocked to the core.

If this was a fictional novel I would actually be thinking there Is no way someone could be that vile, vindictive and manipulative to do that to another human being. However, this Is actually based on a real event which makes this even more horrific. How on earth does someone brainwash another human being to this extent. I have so many unanswered questions.

The author did an amazing job of writing this horrific story of the 3 sisters that survived. The courage they showed to report their own mother and put themselves in the spotlight was so brave.

When I finished the book I Googled the story and learned that Shelly was released last year. This is scary. I don’t believe at all that she is any different now than she was then. Anyone that can do this too another human being with no compassion will still be mentally ill and a threat to society. In my opinion.

This book shook me to the core and I will be thinking about it for a long time because no fictional story can be scarier than this woman. Not for the Faint hearted

1st photo my dog and book cover hes had a haircut 
2nd photo book cover
3rd photo back of book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Body horror, Gaslighting, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Slavery, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Murder, and Toxic relationship

jennay's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

5.0

Such a horrific true story... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Body horror, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Child abuse, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Fatphobia, Excrement, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Blood, Bullying, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, and Violence

heathermarie08's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

This is a horrible story of an evil mother, her brave children and victims. I usually enjoy true crime but for some reason did not enjoy this book as much. It read a bit slow and I felt like could've been a shorter book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Bullying

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Child death, Excrement, and Fatphobia

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cancer, and Alcohol