Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

12 reviews

haileyeh's review

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Drug use, and Infidelity

Minor: Abortion

colleenmdavis's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Animal cruelty, and Child abuse

missmichalalynn's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

This book was very interesting and heartbreaking at the same time. The prose was written to feel almost like a fictional story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Self harm, Pedophilia, Drug use, Death, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Rape, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

livs_getting_bookish's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia

Moderate: Murder, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Animal death, and Violence

te_ss_i's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Chronic illness, Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Death of parent, and Abandonment

librarymouse's review

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

This was really interesting, though I often had trouble keeping track of the brothers because there was so many of them. I believe I've seen Margaret Galvin Johnson's art before, which I wasn't expecting when I started reading the book. Some of the research being done seems to be almost a positive spin on previous methods that had been used by the eugenics movement. This is very interesting take on reflecting on both the impact of mental illness and its treatments, and the human side of living through and coming out on the other side of trauma.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Murder, Pedophilia, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Ableism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Rape, and Suicide attempt

scenic92's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Suicide, Pedophilia, and Mental illness

cghegan's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Death of parent, Death, Confinement, Abandonment, Animal death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Cursing

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, and Torture

Minor: Cancer, War, Abortion, Chronic illness, Dementia, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Sexism, and Terminal illness

katielaine_w's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence