Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

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

2 reviews

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

jennivardier's review

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Car accident, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence