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A review by rosemary_nagy
Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller
4.0
Did I enjoy this book? Absolutely. Would I have enjoyed this book a thousand times more if it had had trigger warnings? ABSOLUTELY.
Don’t Tell a Soul was a fun, creepy, mystery. I expected a normal ghost story with hauntings and all but it was more like a mystery that had a ghostly aspect. But the characters were fun and realistic, and I was hooked from the start.
That being said, this book needs some MAJOR trigger warnings. There’s a detailed description of attempted rape and quite a lot about substance abuse, plus some pretty intense emotional abuse. The main character has PTSD from the attempted rape and that’s an underlying theme through the whole book, with her thinking about how Very Not Safe she feels any time she’s around a boy. These things absolutely need to be addressed and I think this book did an excellent job of showing the trauma, but it was extremely triggering. I’m just glad I read it when I was in a mental space where I could handle that, because if it had been a bad day for me mentally it would’ve been way too much.
Overall, 4/5 and would have been 5/5 if there had been some darn trigger warnings.
Don’t Tell a Soul was a fun, creepy, mystery. I expected a normal ghost story with hauntings and all but it was more like a mystery that had a ghostly aspect. But the characters were fun and realistic, and I was hooked from the start.
That being said, this book needs some MAJOR trigger warnings. There’s a detailed description of attempted rape and quite a lot about substance abuse, plus some pretty intense emotional abuse. The main character has PTSD from the attempted rape and that’s an underlying theme through the whole book, with her thinking about how Very Not Safe she feels any time she’s around a boy. These things absolutely need to be addressed and I think this book did an excellent job of showing the trauma, but it was extremely triggering. I’m just glad I read it when I was in a mental space where I could handle that, because if it had been a bad day for me mentally it would’ve been way too much.
Overall, 4/5 and would have been 5/5 if there had been some darn trigger warnings.