Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

211 reviews

jennswan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident

A very thoughtful, caring, emotional memoir with exquisite prose, but mind the warnings. The way she describes being SA’d as a child is extremely graphic, disturbing, and heartbreaking. I am grateful for her honesty and bravery telling exactly how all the victims of such a horror have to walk a tightrope of expectations, and how adults often make it harder for a child to tell anyone if they are harmed. Best part is how much love overflows in the pages for everything dear to her. Maya Angelou is a wonderful soul.

eas2's review against another edition

funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, and Abandonment

Minor: Blood and Pregnancy

fanni_b22's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

very profound and necessary, everyone should read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, and Grief

asiamd's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I loved this book! I expected to cry a lot more which I did in the beginning of the book but the manner in which she wrote the story felt so calm to me and not in a bad way. It just felt so sweet and beautiful but also at times sad and horrific. It kept me really engaged in a way that I couldn’t cry because I was so caught up in her story and what she was telling. For me this book kinda felt like a love letter to little black girls telling them look at my life and what I’ve went through and see my happy and sad moments and know you’re not alone. Even though this book isn’t technically a poetry book that’s what it felt like to me, to be able to read someones life and the obstacles they went through as a young child is so amazing to me and I can’t wait to read the next book in her autobiography series! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment

arayo's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

jessrad505's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual assault

chriswoody94's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Sexism, Violence, Murder, and Pregnancy

marinaxanna's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

i cried and i laughed and then i cried some more. maya’s writing is just so incredibly moving and engaging. i already knew this from her poetry, but this was such a heartfelt and special piece of work—a must read book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault