Reviews tagging 'Violence'

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

13 reviews

cronareads's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Child death, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Rape, Murder, and Eating disorder

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

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.

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

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

albernikolauras's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

The way this book is written tears you apart. Lesnevich definitely put her time and research into this book in a way that makes it clear the imprint the case left on her. The indepth research of the case overlaid with her own story was very well-done. Neither overpowered the other. Once I started this book, it was hard to put down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

Moderate: Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Sexual assault, and Violence

alisonscott1010's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Murder, Violence, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

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