Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

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

44 reviews

dr_aimz's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Child death and Panic attacks/disorders

boba_n_books's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

A beautiful recounting of finding yourself by going back home. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death and Grief

marigold_faye's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Body shaming, and Child death

Minor: Terminal illness, Death, Cancer, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Grief

megansoetaert's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

4.0

I wish there was more of a narrative structure to this memoir, but I really appreciated Ford’s voice and willingness to share her life and experiences with an audience. Some moments really made me so emotional, and make me just want to reach my hands out to every young girl trying to navigate growing up ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Rape, and Physical abuse

elyssajoh's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Sexual violence

tiff_taff's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Ashley Ford’s memoir is so well written. As someone who also has a complicated relationship with my mother, I found pieces of myself in the pages. She tells her story without embarrassment and owns her journey. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

suchsweetsorrow89's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

3.0

while ford speaks about very real matter sin her life with such transparency and intimacy-- memoirs are just not for me. that being said, she writes about the events and feelings that she has throughout her journey of becoming the person she is today in a way where you can really feel it with her. you feel her confusion regarding understanding the abuse and love she received from her mother, her longing to just be felt as a daughter by her father, and her endless search for love and an understanding of herself and the world. not gonna lie, there were parts where i just cried because i related to them heavily. for me, what would have made this book just a bit better was if she leaned more into those feelings, since those were often the strongest parts in the narrative. alternatively, it would have been interesting had she played with the writing style a bit more (there were certainly moments where she did, but i think just a littllleeee more experimental could have really nailed in the emotional aspect of it all). i also think that while the book title is about belonging, there were only few moments in which those themes really came to life for me. really, i give this book a 3.5/5 stars, it wasn't bad!! but memoir writing in this way has just never really done it for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Death, Death of parent, Rape, and Sexual harassment

jasbeingjas's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

4.25

I don’t think I had a peaceful moment reading this book. It’s beautifully written but god did it make my heart ache. I kept anxiously waiting for things to get worse and worse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Stalking

emmersnicole's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Death, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Body shaming

annabulkowski's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Racism