Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones

30 reviews

kbweis's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

2.5

i respect that the audiobook wasn't narrated by faith herself, but i think i lost a lot of her tone and sincerity because of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Animal death, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Addiction

deepcurvesahead's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Eating disorder, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicide and Murder

librarymouse's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

Faith Jones's perspective on the Children of God cult, with the conflicting and wildly varied emotions and memories she has of her time there. Her story is unique as she comes as it through the lens of how she viewed the incidents at the ages they were occurring. She brings the reader along with the journey of her struggles, joys, and the ways her perspective changes as she ages and learns. Her need for proof and desire for knowledge and understanding is deeply understandable and admirable as she breaks away from the way she was taught to unquestioningly believe what those in positions of power say. As she notes, she is astoundingly mature and innocent in equal measure, and her capacity for forgiveness is admirable. It makes sense that she didn't break her personal relationship with God after her break with organized religion. The title Sex Cult Nun is also quite interesting, as she both devotes herself to God with a vow like a catholic nun, but she also proselytizes and attempts to spread her beliefs by living the ideals she'd been taught as a nun would.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia

alicefaye_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Incest, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Addiction, Drug use, and Suicide

evenstr's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Suicide and Murder

strawberrybookess's review against another edition

4.5

The end of this book made me weep. Going through a faith crisis & leaving a high demand religion feels like the foundation of your life is crumbling under your feet. It’s the most freeing & terrifying process that has truly defined my life. I would not be where I am today without the stories of others who have gone through similar things. Reading this book broke my heart & healed it at the same time. 

“I have not finished my quest for truth. It is continuous & joyous. Old ideas crumple as new truths are revealed through rigorous questioning.” 

“All things did work together for my good, but not automatically. I had to choose to create good from it & turn my traumas into strength.” 

“Our susceptibility to cults comes from our desire to have a source; an authority to tell us what to do & what is true.” 

“I’m doing this for those who have been oppressed, manipulated, & abused & need the words to stand up for themselves.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pedophilia, Suicide, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Violence, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Misogyny

onecrab's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

What a story.  Definitely taking a minute here to be born into a pretty normal family.  

I really disliked the shade Ms. Jones threw at what I assume is Monterey Peninsula College.  Like it may be a community college but it did advance your learning and goals.  Save that shade for the pedophilia ring that called itself christians.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Incest, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Sexism, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content

liam_bennett03's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death

Minor: Suicide

ladyhoneybee23's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Rape, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, and Gaslighting

rakizaka's review against another edition

slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Child abuse

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Suicide, Murder, Animal death, and Homophobia