Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford

17 reviews

paigeno's review against another edition

emotional reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Medical content, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

reading_rainbow_with_chris's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

 

“Somebody’s Daughter” by Ashley C. Ford

***Content Warning: sexual assault, verbal abuse, physical abuse, gaslighting 

Ashley C. Ford grew up in Indiana with her mother, her siblings, and the knowledge that her father was in prison. From an early age seemed to be seeking a way to connect with adults, to be something to them. Ford’s memoir was startling in how relatively simple she kept it without making the style feel juvenile, a tricky balance to strike which she expertly handled. As a result, the rawness of her experiences shine. I was also impressed that the tone of the experience did not sink beyond recovery at any point in the narrative. Ford recounts multiple forms of abuse and trauma from her childhood, including but not limited to verbal abuse, sexual abuse, and copious amounts of gaslighting. In other memoirs of similar content, the book becomes heavy and difficult to bear the weight of the story. Ford is honest about her experiences and sometimes leans into them as factual happenings rather than focusing on her own emotions of the experiences, creating a balance which allows her to return from darkness and keep our experience as readers balanced. This is not to say that Ford doesn’t utilize her own emotion in the narrative; she does so with powerful impact, landing craters of feeling at just the right time. But how and when she reveals it feels strategic in a way that serves the memoir beautifully. This is an excellent example of memoir that I will highly recommend for fans of the genre or for those who are simply interested in human experience.  

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Rape, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

radfordmanor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Racism, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

thatbookishwriter's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Sexual content and Sexual harassment

morgankopanski's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Child abuse

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

 - I've been following Ford's writing online for many years, so I knew this book would be good. If you need further proof, though, I listened to the entire audiobook while stuck in traffic for ten hours and was riveted the whole time.
- SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER is an exploration of not only growing up and finding yourself, but finding your parents, too - the good and the bad parts of them. It's a book about loving difficult people, and holding conflicting parts of yourself and your loved ones at the same time.
- One thing that really stuck out to me is the way Ford illustrates how confusing childhood can be, when you're often punished for breaking rules you didn't know existed and the adults don't give any further explanation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Violence

skudiklier's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This book was beautiful, thoughtful, and painful. It was a lot more about her relationship with her mother than I thought going in, but maybe that's because I have personal reasons I relate to some things with her father (and so I was especially interested in that going in). Regardless of what I expected, I definitely loved this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship