Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

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

6 reviews

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

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.

coley28's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Violence, Child abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child death, Death, and Eating disorder

auteaandtales's review

dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence

honniker's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

Despite this being billed as true crime, it's not really. It's the story of a murderer and the story of a woman and how their stories have common themes. It's kind of a story of humanity and its brokenness. 

This book was really well written. The author did a good job building up a sense of dread and she also did a good job making you wonder about things. For that I give it five stars. 

I will say, however, that there is a lot of speculation when it comes to some of the things about Ricky Langley which can be a little weird at times. Other than that though I highly recommend this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Sexual content

samchase112's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Damn. The Fact of a Body is an extremely powerful book about deeply disturbing and difficult topics. Marzano-Lesnevich's writing is so compelling and they weave the story together so incredibly well; each scene, each word, was so carefully chosen. I won't lie, this is not an easy book to read -- there is something horrible happening on seemingly every page. All I can say is that I loved and hated every second in almost equal measure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Incest, Grief, Eating disorder, Death, Child death, Child abuse, Car accident, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, and Blood

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use