Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

66 reviews

marmitecake's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Medical content, Suicide, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction and Miscarriage

nebulous_cat's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, and Body shaming

Moderate: Abortion, Miscarriage, and Suicide

Minor: Eating disorder and Pandemic/Epidemic

katelynprice's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

I am still thinking about this book weeks after reading it. I admire her so much for taking back control and telling her story. My biggest takeaway from this book and Prince Harry’s is having so much more empathy for celebrities and the scrutiny they live under. There’s so much to be said about ethics, mental health, misogyny, and trauma in these pages, and I think it would make for interesting book club discussion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Abortion, Cursing, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

Minor: Suicide, Medical trauma, Car accident, Eating disorder, Blood, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Child death

ninafrondorf's review

medium-paced

3.75

Great narration and (I assume) ghost writing. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide

tina_lou_'s review against another edition

emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.5

Wow, this book was honestly so go and so sad. It made me appreciate Britney and everything she went through and still continues to struggle with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Alcoholism, Suicide, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Abortion, and Drug use

karina5162's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Britney Spears was way nicer than she had to be in this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Suicide, and Emotional abuse

djnb's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

A book that really makes you think about the celebrity tabloid content produced and consumed every day. Though written simplistically, it's in the author's true voice and that voice has powerful things to say. An emotional read, but it's inspiring that Britney speaks out for herself and retains an optimistic perspective on her future life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Body shaming

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide

hannahpings's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

i wish nothing but the world for britney spears. wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcohol, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Miscarriage and Pandemic/Epidemic

linnylionheart's review against another edition

reflective sad fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Addiction, Abortion, Chronic illness, Sexism, Suicide, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Body shaming, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Blood

Moderate: Rape and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Dementia, Cancer, Child death, Eating disorder, and Domestic abuse

underage drinking ; underage smoking ; underage driving (at 13)

macykey's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

3.5

The writing sounds very much like how Britney would speak, which I think is a testament to either how good her ghost writer was, how much she actually wrote herself, or perhaps a bit of both. It didn’t get too deep into anything, but then again, I don’t know if it should’ve. The point of the book was to tell things from her perspective, not psychoanalyze her time in the conservatorship. The book didn’t  come out that long after it ended, so she may not have been ready to get too deep into it. She said what she wanted to say and that’s that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death

Minor: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts