Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The Polygamist's Daughter: A Memoir by Anna LeBaron

9 reviews

thesapphiccelticbookworm's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry and Grief

Moderate: Violence, Murder, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Racism

caitking98's review

emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Misogyny

Moderate: Suicide, Religious bigotry, Gun violence, Murder, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death

mfrabbiele's review

dark hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

I always have a hard time rating memoirs because I do not enjoy adding a rating or a score to someone's personal story and experiences. However, from strictly a reader-storytelling experience, I was engaged to the point of wanting more and I was eager to see how her life events played out.

In short, Anna grew up in poverty, constantly on the move, and rarely seeing her parents despite living with other family and friends. Her childhood is full of emotional abuse and neglect before she decides to take life into her own hands, seeking change.

The story itself is succinct and comes full circle as she is able to share her life today, as an adult and a mother. 

Anna is brave and resilient.

Trigger warnings include: murder and adult-minor relationships.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Death, Adult/minor relationship, and Child abuse

mondovertigo's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Suicide, Mental illness, Child abuse, Murder, Gaslighting, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Gun violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death

themoonshinegirl's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

While I am absolutely heartbroken by and empathetic to the trauma that Anna LeBaron has gone through, this book read more like an attempt to proselytize to Mormons, polygamists and those still slightly more fundamentalist than the fundamentalist mega churches name dropped throughout the text. I can’t help but wonder if she would’ve gotten better mental health help sooner had she not been constantly in religious-based schooling and counseling. That being said, I do appreciate her advocacy for counseling - religious or secular - as necessary for healing trauma rather than just relying on spirituality.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Murder

thebranchlibrary_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Gun violence

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

Really great, insightful retelling of a very brave young girl and her struggles in and healing from a cult. It was the right mix of background, narrative, and reflections at the end that provided great closure for the story. I feel honored to have been able to hear Ana's story of resilience and finding herself. 

Would have rated a bit higher but the timeline was a bit hard to follow at times and some of the writing and phrases were noticibly repetitive. Small qualms though 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexism, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Suicide, and Death

Minor: Fatphobia, Death of parent, Eating disorder, and Homophobia

forrestalexander's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Misogyny, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Suicide and Child death

ameliaflint's review

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

3.0

The writer is not the most apt or enthralling storyteller, but she doesn't have to be. She revealed the raw truth of many horrific things in these pages and I admire her bravery. I felt her pain and her healing throughout the book, and the message that religion can still be there for you after you were exploited in its name is powerful. Overall, this is a powerful story of breaking and healing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Murder, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Incest