Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

3 reviews

librarymouse's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

What a strange and unsettling book. To be able to continue to care for someone, especially platonically, while knowing the atrocities they've committed against innumerable individuals; the echo of which is so deep and widespread, is unfathomable to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Confinement, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Emotional abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Pregnancy and Antisemitism

bootsmom3's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Murder, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Gore

eldritch_flower's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring tense slow-paced

4.0

 This was an interesting read. It's fairly short and it follows the case of Diane Downs, a woman who shot her three kids. It's short, to the point, no flowery language, and so well researched.

In this book we follow Diane's version of events, the aftermath, how her surviving children healed, Diane's past, the court proceedings, and her stay in a women's correctional facility(and her escape and recapture).

It's short, but definitely worth reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Torture, Blood, Murder, and Rape

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Violence