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embervleo's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Biphobia, Bullying, Violence, Transphobia, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexism, Physical abuse, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Hate crime, Gun violence, Gore, and Fatphobia
Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, and Car accident
mallory10100's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Confinement, and Infidelity
Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Pregnancy
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Rape, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Vomit
this book really doesn’t feel like non fiction, but it’s a chilling true story and i highly recommend itulmaridae's review against another edition
5.0
"Even the enduring symbol of queerness, the rainbow, is a promise not to repeat an act of supreme violence by a capricious and rageful god. 'I won't flood the whole world again, it was a one-time thing, I swear. Do you trust me?' And the later, a threat: 'The next time motherfuckers, it will be fire'."
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Car accident, and Biphobia
rachaelallyn's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence
_s_i_s_s_i's review against another edition
4.75
That may be specific to me and my experience, but as CMM says in the books <mild spoiler> “It was terrible because I wanted to believe that my love was unique, and my pain was unique… but then I opened book after book about lesbian abuse and saw pseudonyms women regurgitating everything that happened to me. There’s a pie chart that encompasses those years of my life” <mild spoiler> So I wanted to include a more detailed trigger warning then I seen in other reviews.
I volunteer with a crisis line and deal with DV content on the regular, and feel fine about it, but if I sat and read more than five pages at a time of “In The Dream House“ I would be thrown into turmoil.
I’m a bisexual woman that was in a relationship with a heterosexual man and almost every account that CMM shared of her experiences was a carbon copy to my life. Well I don’t want to shift the focus, my queer identity was a focal piece of the abuse I received and I think the chapters that spoke to the universality of abuse felt incredibly poignant to me.
I would absolutely add this book to curriculum around abuse, specifically emotional and verbal and the complexities of how that is different from physical abuse.
The -0.25 stars is for that I didn’t care for the footnote style she chose over using endnotes. If there was commentary that was needed on that page, I would have preferred it be incorporated into the text
Graphic: Car accident
leahlovesloslibros's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Animal death, and Murder
Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Drug use, Homophobia, and Mental illness
Minor: Biphobia, Fatphobia, Car accident, Infertility, and Rape
Additional TW/CW: brief Harry Potter reference, divorce, psychological abuse, traumajojo_'s review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Sexual assault
Minor: Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit
silviaaa's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Vomit, Car accident, and Homophobia
skudiklier's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Stalking