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When the World Didn't End by Guinevere Turner

6 reviews

parenthesis_enjoyer's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Rape, Drug use, Incest, Body shaming, Sexism, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Pregnancy, Violence, and Eating disorder

Minor: Animal death and Death

librarymouse's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.5

Prior to reading Guinevere Turner's account of her childhood, I'd never heard of the Lyman family. Reading Turner's story though both retrospective reflection and direct quotes from journal entries from when the events she describes took place made her storytelling so immersive and the horrors she endured all the more gut wrenching.
The story starting with the failure of an ascension predicted by the leader of the cult Turner was born into was such an eye catching hook to being readers in, and while it primed me for some of what to expect for some of  he other Lyman family beliefs, other aspects of Turner's story were totally unexpected.
Guinevere Turner has a mastery of language and how to keep a reader invested that is tangible even in the diary excerpts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Rape, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Mental illness, and Misogyny

Moderate: Medical content, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Abortion

Minor: Death, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

limina's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

I couldn't read this book fast enough, I don't even know what to write. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Eating disorder and Injury/Injury detail

daphnehumming's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

5.0

Terrific memoir it really does read like a novel. It is dark,

you really have to admire Guinevere’s perseverance and writing ability, both as a young person and today. Unfortunately, the story doesn’t truly look up until the end. I can only hope Turner decides to write a sequel.

for fans of I’m glad my mom died.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Misogyny, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Eating disorder, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Homophobia, and Physical abuse

Minor: Death and Abortion

dustghosts's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexism, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, and Suicidal thoughts

sshabein's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Guinevere Turner's memoir about her childhood split between growing up in the Lyman Family cult and later an abusive household with her mother, step-father, and siblings was a harrowing read, but an interesting one. Using her diaries as scaffolding, she writes from the perspective of her child-self and how she felt about what was happening to her at the time. Though I maybe would have liked a little more adult-self perspective near the end, I also understand that writing it this way makes it all the more clear what it's like to be in these situations, how your perspective gets warped by what the adults in your life are telling you. It's also wild how she was actually somewhat safer within a cult than she was living with her mother/step-father, though of course, living with the Family had its own share of problems. I'd be interested to read another memoir from Turner about how she navigated life after getting free from these terrible situations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, and Eating disorder