Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy, Updated and Expanded Edition by Elizabeth Kendall

5 reviews

mariareviews's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

It feels weird to rate this book, so I’ll leave this review without a rating. Full honestly, the writing is could be better and if this was fiction I would’ve DNF it so fast. But this isn’t fiction. This is the story of a woman that went through hell and survived. She’s definitely brave for exposing herself like that, open for everyone to judge her writing skills or poor choices. At first it felt like she still, dare I say, love and even sympathised with Bundy. It’s sad to see that the wound was still open when she first published the book. This new version offers her closure as a human and closure to us as readers. Molly’s side of the story was definitely eye opening and all she had to struggle with crushed my heart into tiny bits.

I hope the families and everyone involved with Ted Bundy manage to find peace and live a tranquil life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Abortion and Stalking

squaresunflowers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.25

This was an exhilarating rush of conflicting emotions and dry retching (despite the evident absence of anything remotely gory, the recounts of Liz's experiences still left a very unpleasant taste in my mouth). To get the full picture, I got the updated publication containing Liz's afterthoughts. Reading her inner turmoils laid bare page after page, I felt nothing but deep sympathy. 

On the flip side, not to romanticise Ted Bundy's motives/life, but any aspiring parent should use his story as a stern reminder to themselves too: please, please ensure that you provide your child(ren) a loving and complete childhood; else, you're just one of the many parents that contribute unwittingly to the vicious generational merry-go-round.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Grief

brianna_moye's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, and Addiction

Minor: Abortion and Rape

ansoreads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcohol, Death, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Rape, Pedophilia, Murder, and Child abuse

alexanickole's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.0

So incredibly  touching and incredibly dark, I’m so happy that this women were able to find peace. I hope the families of the victims and also the women who survived this monster were able to heal, we remember all the victims.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence