Scan barcode
emdowd's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
luckyonesoph's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Ableism and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Xenophobia
Minor: Death, Animal death, Child death, and Rape
sierrabowers's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Rape, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Death, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Racism, Racial slurs, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Slavery, Suicide, Homophobia, Infertility, Pregnancy, Classism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Ableism, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gun violence, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Police brutality
confuzzledsheep's review against another edition
2.0
Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Infidelity, Ableism, Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Child death
bookbrig's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Ableism
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Racism
Minor: Suicide attempt and Infidelity
readingpicnic's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Ableism, Medical trauma, Child death, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Racism
Minor: Infidelity and Self harm
justkellyann's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Death, Child death, and Medical trauma
Minor: Xenophobia and Rape
inthemoonlight's review against another edition
5.0
My only warning would be to look at any trigger warnings if that's something that would impact you. I personally went in blind, not even knowing what it was about, and did not realize how dark things would be. Vital to talk about, but still potentially triggering nonetheless.
Graphic: Ableism, Genocide, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Racism, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Death, Rape, Child death, and Physical abuse
fridayreads's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Racism, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Misogyny, Alcohol, Death, Slavery, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Addiction
whatannikareads's review against another edition
2.75
i’m a mixed bag of emotions about this book. after about halfway through i think the first half of the book was completely unnecessary/a different book altogether. i fell asleep quite a few times during the first half. the second half was much more interesting, but i kept getting whiplash on the organization of it; we kept switching from history to memoir to social science. i don’t feel the memoir section was expanded enough to be super engaging. the connection between the writer and david star jordan, aside from her research of him, felt like a reach. i think if she has developed her story more, or just made it a completely separate book, it could’ve been more enjoyable. the whole book could’ve just been 3 different articles tbh. it felt like reading a really long op-ed and i don’t think ot should’ve been a book tbh.
also again, i don’t know if talking about how shitty his beliefs were in the second half made up for how nicely he was portrayed in the first half?? it was just very clearly not written by a person of color lol.
Moderate: Medical trauma, Death, Racism, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Ableism