Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Polygamist's Daughter: A Memoir by Anna LeBaron

11 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

moorecandycane's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment and Murder

Minor: Sexual violence

jenlikesbigbooks's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Abandonment, Death of parent, Violence, Child abuse, Misogyny, and Murder

arsenic_rose's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

3.5

It was interesting to find out about another cult. I had no previous knowledge of this cult or any of the murders that happened. Wish she would have acknowledged the messed up teachings of other people mentioned. Not sure if she escaped one cult and ended up joining another with Bill Gothard being mentioned a few times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, and Gun violence

lizzzardbean's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Murder and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide

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

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