Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

If You Tell by Gregg Olsen

56 reviews

mpapomeroy's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Bullying, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Violence, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Murder, Torture, Drug use, Cursing, and Domestic abuse

bell4trixx's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

3.0

For anyone who is in to true crime. There are parts of this book that is interesting and informative, it does seem like the author did a lot of work researching what happened, but this book could have used a better editor. By the end of it, it really seemed to drag on, I think some of the stories of abuse could have been edited out..

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Physical abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Cursing

Moderate: Sexual content, Blood, Excrement, Torture, and Medical content

If you are triggered by abuse not a good read. Good read if you’re in the mood for an in-depth true crime on an abusive family/mother

cardlikecredit's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

4.5

This book was intense. Well written so that it flowed more like a narrative than just straight non-fiction. Keeps you hooked until the very end. Read with caution though, the details are really tough.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Fatphobia, Confinement, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Death of parent and Excrement

priscillarobock's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Medical content, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Slavery, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Bullying, and Toxic relationship

dale1997's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Torture, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Child abuse, Murder, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

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

csmoke85's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Domestic abuse, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

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

sydneylneel's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Cursing, Violence, Suicide, Homophobia, Murder, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Ableism, Gore, Emotional abuse, Death, Torture, Sexual violence, Slavery, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, and Domestic abuse

anusplugger's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This story was truly heartbreaking to read and to know that these were true events were frightening. There are people out there who are like Shelly out in the world living without facing any consequences for their sadistic actions and it's so sickening . My heart goes out to all of the victims and victims family who were involved in all of this. There were moments in the story where I got frustrated with the victims because I kept thinking this was all fictional, but I had to take a deep breath to remember that these were true events. And if I were in their shoes, I myself would have done the same as them. However some people in the story should have been more involved and should have taken more action.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Self harm, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Torture, Violence, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Suicide attempt