Reviews tagging 'Death'

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

17 reviews

hannibanani29's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Sexual content

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Drug use, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Biphobia, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Dementia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

rorareads55's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Infidelity

whentheresteeth's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book is brilliantly written and so important. I loved the poetic writing. I loved the extremely short chapters. I loved the footnotes. I... have no words. Oh my God.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Biphobia, Bullying, Classism, Fatphobia, and Hate crime

pirate's review

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

mallory10100's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

wow this book was amazing. heartbreaking yet quick. i highly recommend. i really liked the unique format. 

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Content Warnings

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 it

bisexualwentworth's review

5.0

ORIGINAL REVIEW:

I feel weird about rating nonfiction, but I'm giving this book five stars anyway because I loved it so much.

I know this won't be for everyone. If you don't like experimental writing or you're not already familiar with queer theory or queer history to some extent, this book isn't a great starting point.

But if you know that you like those things and you want an examination of queer abuse—specifically abusive sapphic relationships and the archival silence that surrounds them—you should definitely read this book.

Certain chapters felt like crawling into my own brain if I'd lived different experiences, which was very surreal.

Carmen Maria Machado was already a favorite author for me after Her Body and Other Parties, but she's even more of one now. I love what she does with her writing, and I can't wait to read more of it.

2023 REREAD THOUGHTS:

This hurts now. When I read this the first time, a lot of stuff resonated, but mostly I found it brilliant on the level of structure. I thought it was doing brilliant and important work. I still do, for sure, but now I’ve been in an abusive queer relationship, and reading this was very very painful. I’m honestly not sure why I did this to myself. Hopefully, maybe, it will help. We’ll see.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Biphobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Death, Fatphobia, and Fire/Fire injury

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I found it. The perfect memoir. The writing throughout this entire book is so beautiful even while describing the most harrowing details that I couldn't believe I was allowed to read it. It is beautiful and horrifying. There is also a lot of important commentary throughout about how women can easily be monsters in lesbian relationships, that abusive relationships are not exclusively a heterosexual phenomenon and the myth of the "lesbian utopia" is just that, myth. In reality, lesbian relationships have the capability to be just as toxic as any other relationship, that we should believe queer women when they come forward with their stories and not dismiss them. Abuse is abuse, be the perpetrator a man, woman, or gender nonconforming. I think this one is gonna stay with me for a really really long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Infidelity, Medical content, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, and Gore

Minor: Blood