Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

3 reviews

jessica_luvs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Grief, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Medical content, Suicide, and Abandonment

kipibookclub's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Violence, Body horror, Mental illness, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

halosreputation's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

Bought this after reading Beautiful Boy (the companion memoir) not expecting to like it as much - I actually enjoyed it more. It's more fast-paced and less repetitive in comparison, reads more like a story, and offers the full picture of what actually happened with Nic. I don't know which I would suggest reading first - Beautiful Boy offers a lot of interesting facts and research into drug addiction and of course the devastating outside perspective of the parent. I would recommend Tweak if you're purely interested in the first-person perspective of addiction. Reading Tweak afterward definitely felt like filling in all of the gaps in David's story. I enjoyed both of them, but feel more connected with Nic's story, though I suspect that is an age/circumstance thing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Infidelity, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Blood, Violence, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, Fatphobia, and Suicidal thoughts