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A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard

33 reviews

aah6ay's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Drug use, Child abuse, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Violence, and Sexual assault

abigailsh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Drug use, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, and Rape

chezler24's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

This book was A LOT to process. Hearing everything this woman went through from her kidnapping to her 18 years of captivity/sexual enslavement/abuse was absolutely heartbreaking. Jaycee Dugard covers everything she did to survive and endure the absolute hell her captors, Phillip and Nancy Garrido, put her through. She was captured before I was even born and wasn't found until after I was in middle school. That is WILD! The justice system and figures who were put in place to keep the offenders from committing the same crime failed horribly, and this case is just one clear example of how current systems are failing and potentially missing crucial, life-threatening things. For this, I commend her greatly for getting her story out there and for her work moving forward with her foundation. 

While I do admire the work Jaycee did to process what she went through and provide insight into what people in her shoes have endured, the simplistic prose of the book and some organization with timelines and processing things that went on could have been cleaned up a bit to erase some of the repetitive sections. There were times where I thought I had doubled back and accidentally re-listened to a section. I am, however, conflicted with me saying this because there is a certain rawness that exists with the prose being solely in her voice with minimal to no edits or additional commentary from outside professionals. Some of this could also result from the book being published so soon after she was rescued combined with the therapy session nature of processing 18 years of intense trauma. While not a perfect book, there is a lot of value and information to be gained from such a unique testimony. 

(Note: I've been trying to "get better" at audiobook reading, and it seems that I can more easily focus on the material when it's nonfiction rather than fiction. This isn't as pertinent for the review as it is for me noting the influx of audiobook options compared to my comfort zone of physical books.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Confinement, and Slavery

Moderate: Drug abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Drug use

hannxm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit, Torture, Cursing, and Excrement

bergerreadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

3.75

this book is absolutely heartbreaking. hearing everything she went through for EIGHTEEN YEARS is insane. it’s so beyond messed up. what a beautiful story though in the end of unlearning and healing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Confinement, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal cruelty and Abortion

haileyeh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Gaslighting, Grief, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Confinement, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Rape, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, and Vomit

jmelauren's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual assault, Confinement, Violence, Drug use, Kidnapping, and Child abuse

Moderate: Animal death

allyoop93's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was an emotional read. I can’t imagine being strong enough to endure what Jaycee went through. (I always give autobiographies 5 stars because who am I to judge their life story? However the writing is a little juvenile-but take into consideration this girl was kidnapped at 11 years old and did not receive further education at the point this book was published. The writing style did not bother me.) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Kidnapping and Drug use

Jaycee has 2 children by her rapist and kidnapper.

nicoleanthony's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Rape, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Drug use, Sexual violence, and Gaslighting

sknappy1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Child abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Animal death, Excrement, Cursing, and Drug abuse

Minor: Dementia, Miscarriage, Animal cruelty, and Suicidal thoughts