Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

56 reviews

bzzylz's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Minor: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Murder

paronomaniac's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Racial slurs

Minor: Animal death and Mental illness

s_mivsek's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

3.5

Well written, would recommend to people who enjoy real crime; just not my cup of tea

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, and Dysphoria

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

emy_clemy's review

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

kfergy's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

Considered the first contemporary "true crime novel," the writing is very compelling and the quotes from and conversations between characters/witnesses is a really interesting approach to telling the story. It makes me wonder slightly about creative licence on the part of the author, but I dig it. Huge warning for racist slurs though - you could say it goes with the territory for the place and time, but a warning nonetheless. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Minor: Cancer, Child abuse, Mental illness, and Pedophilia

taylormoore's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Police brutality, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcoholism

calamityin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

1.5

While it's one of the cornerstones for True Crime as a literary phenomena, it's incredibly insensitive to the victims and those around them.  It's frankly a bit disgusting the way that Capote describes these horrible acts as if they didn't happen to real people who had real hopes and dreams and lives.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Pedophilia, Racism, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Fatphobia

quinoa_x_chaos's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Abandonment

Minor: Pedophilia

willowchloe's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Minor: Child abuse and Suicidal thoughts

soswiin's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

definitely a unique format that grabbed my attention more than i thought it would've. yes, inventing dialogue and scenes made it read more like a novel than an informative essay as capote intended but it just didn't feel morally right. which is a dilemma that encompasses 90% of this book's controversies anyway. capote was brave for humanizing the clutter family's killers and i appreciate it to an extent — it elevated the pair from stereotypical jailhouse grunts to fleshed-out individuals with individual wounds and faults. while it added depth it still felt weird to ready about!! bad childhood ≠ the right to blow the brains out of an entire family. lot of repeated information which was quite helpful given the attention span i'd allotted for this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Homophobia