Reviews tagging 'Death'

Sleeping Giants by Rene Denfeld

1 review

erinmg's review

sad

4.0

Extremely sad but poignant novel. Lots of description of so-called holding therapy, which is just extremely abusive treatment of children with attachment and/or behavioral difficulties. I was sad but not surprised to hear this is still in use today though it’s technically illegal. The twist at the end was quite unexpected so that was well done, but overall just pretty hard to read most of the time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Child death, and Medical trauma

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Pedophilia