Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker

2 reviews

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

After hearing that LISK had been caught, I read this book about his victims. I enjoyed the victim-centric narrative. So many true crime books focus on the killer, not the victims, I know when this was written he hadn't (presumably, innocent until proven guilty) been caught. But I think that made it a better book, focusing on the victims. He didn't even really go into how they were killed. So it was more a biography of the victims and their families than a true crime book. Overall a great read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Mental illness, Trafficking, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Abandonment, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Death, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Cursing

annamcg23's review

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed Lost Girls--this was one that I finished in one night. I love the division of the story into the different characters and think Kolker did a good job of telling the stories of the respective girls respectfully.

I didn't love the abruptness of the ending and thought the pacing was a little too fast at the end but otherwise no complaints

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Trafficking