Reviews - The Third Person

321 reviews for:

The Third Person

Emma Grove

4.28 AVERAGE

gabbovacco's review

5.0

My favorite read all year - maybe one of the most brilliant books I’ve ever read.

laprasmilk's review

4.0

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5★: FRUSTRATING, EYE-OPENING, & INTENSE! The cover art might just say it all... look at how he’s looking at her. There’s a lot of that in this 920-page heavyweight. I love that the author included her process for how she wrote this because I’m certain many readers would be highly skeptical without it. Since this is nonfiction and based on real people, there is a particular person I hope gets fired or ousted from their profession as a result of this book (published May 2022). Some of it was a grind to get through, but I just HAD TO KNOW the outcome. I can’t help but wonder how much we really know about mental health. After this book, I honestly think it is very little.

At the time of this review, The Third Person has a 4.17-star average by 295 peeps. I hope it gets more attention, readers, and buyers.

blackwolf294's review

4.0

In a sketchy, understated art style, Emma Grove captures her journey through therapy as she struggles with Dissociative Identity Disorder and hopes to get approved for hormone replacement therapy. Over the course of time, her therapist meets each of her three unique personalities. But doubts and tension soon run high as misunderstandings and accusations of lying abound. As Emma works through memories of her past, she begins to discover what caused her to form each of her identities in the first place.

This was an interesting read. The size of the book is considerable, but I actually didn't mind that. I'm a fast reader, so I usually I finish graphic novels/memoirs in one day. But I liked that this one lasted a bit longer.

The Third Person is a journey through healing and self-discovery. It highlights not only the unique challenges of living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, but it also shows the importance of distinguishing between good therapy and harmful therapy. While it certainly deals with difficult subjects, this graphic memoir is both informative and hopeful.

annelisegordon's review

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

podanotherjessi's review

4.75

challenging medium-paced

I don't know how to talk about memoirs, but this is easily my favorite graphic memoir I've read. I feel like it was raw and informative, which really worked for me. The simple art style at first wasn't really for me, but as it went on I felt drawn in and understand the feelings being conveyed.

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owllover2319's review

5.0

I love this book so much. I checked it out from the library to read it, but I think I’ll have to buy my own copy. We rarely see ourselves reflected in the books we read, for a lot of reasons. But we’ve definitely never seen another trans system write a book before. A lot of this book hits HARD if you’re plural, or at least, it did for us.