Reviews tagging 'Incest'

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

19 reviews

linguaphile412's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Death, Child abuse, Child death, Incest, Murder, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Grief, Eating disorder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

miachimochi's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Sexual content, Self harm, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Sexual violence, Medical content, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Car accident, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

johoha93's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Rape

leahcatching's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual assault, Rape, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Death, Child abuse, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, and Eating disorder

shieldbearer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

Rating memoirs always feels strange to me, but this is not a pure memoir, this is also a nonfictional account, and it is on those grounds I find fault. I am aware the author says upfront that several events around the events of the Langley trial/murder are composite, compressed or otherwise altered, but frankly I deeply disliked the aspect where the author is clearly ascribing and assuming the thought processes of the real people involved in this. "[y person] MUST HAVE [felt/thought z thing]" got extremely, tediously old. It also got irritating when the author frequently ascribed personalities and descriptions onto people we could get only glimpses from fact. Why is every person we have such glimpses of imagined by the author to be young and naive?? I would much have preferred a straight forward account of all the contradictions and complexities, even if it was more complicated. The writing is beautiful but I couldn't get past the framing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Rape, Grief, Drug abuse, Child death, Alcohol, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Drug use, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Murder, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Cursing, and Child abuse

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Whew, this book is so so hard, and probably because it's so well-written. I think it's as close to poetry as prose comes. So much research, so much hurt, so much trauma. Incredible. Would read anything Marzano-Lesnevich wrote.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Car accident, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Rape, Addiction, Incest, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Child death, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Misogyny, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Fatphobia, Vomit, Self harm, and Bullying

If child abuse is not good for you to read about, this is definitely a book to skip. The descriptions are extremely hard.

lily1304's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

3.25

Content warning: everything. Disturbing true crime and memoir of intergenerational trauma. Both nauseating and fascinating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, Child death, and Murder

paigeno's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Incest, Violence, Car accident, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Gore, Grief, Body horror, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Death

humanpuke's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pedophilia, Incest, Child abuse, and Rape

rosiekerber's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Child abuse, Incest, and Murder