Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul

20 reviews

gay_for_jay's review

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

If you expect this book to be full of other people's drama and Drag Race, think again and find different expectations. Including those elements would have negatively impacted this book because RuPaul is much more. 

RuPaul wrote and narrated a phenomenal book about their life and journey to becoming who they are today. There are quotable moments - cause Ru is almost always quotable, but there is so much more as you dive deeper into what is on the page. 

I loved learning more about the person under the wig and costume. RuPaul has always been semi-vulnerable but revealed a different side of them (IMO). Learning more about their struggles, life, what drove them, and their relationships (platonic and romantic) was humanizing. Overall, it is digestible, easy to read (and listen to), and insightful. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Death of parent

devynreadsnovels's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Racism, Physical abuse, Classism, Cursing, Death, Addiction, Abandonment, Violence, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Drug use, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Biphobia, Bullying, Transphobia, Cancer, and Infidelity

macncheese_pdf's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Addiction

Minor: Sexual assault

nkojovic's review

inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Mental illness, Car accident, Classism, Drug use, Addiction, and Adult/minor relationship

_aurora_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Cursing, Grief, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Bullying, Cancer, Drug use, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic friendship, and Transphobia

samburkhouse's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug use

deepcurvesahead's review

dark hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

3.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Homophobia, Drug use, and Alcoholism

ktdakotareads's review against another edition

emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Transphobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug use, Grief, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Addiction, Abandonment, Death, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

coronationcorgi's review against another edition

funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Abandonment, Bullying, Drug use, Homophobia, and Death of parent

emma_reads28's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

3.5

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Drug abuse, and Addiction