Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones

19 reviews

hermithebs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

Please check triggers warnings. This book has graphic depictions of abuse and sexual abuse 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Eating disorder, Abandonment, Body shaming, and Bullying

Minor: Animal death

radreadswithrachel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Incest, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Violence

nbonarski's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, and Pedophilia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, and Body shaming

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Gaslighting, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Colonisation

Minor: Bullying, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Abortion, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Blood, and Body shaming

thrillofthepage's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

I don’t rate memoirs, which is why there’s no rating here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Body shaming, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Suicide, Addiction, and Animal death

owlsreads's review against another edition

This book contains graphic descriptions of childhood sexual abuse and rape. 

I'm not going to give this a star rating since I feel incredibly weird about that prospect in regard to this book. Faith Jones is very brave to come forward and tell the story of her life, the abuse the went through, and her determination to find her place in the world in narrative form as a way to encourage others to seek help and know they are not alone. 

If you're in any way familiar with the Children of God cult, some of what Faith described here will not come as a surprise. The writing took a little while to get used to, at first, but reading about someone's experience growing up in the Family was very interesting. There was a lot of honest from her and I really appreciated her sharing her reflections on her own beliefs and how twisted they were and why. 

I will say the epilogue was... very off-putting, personally, with the way she related bodily autonomy and personal boundaries to US property laws as a way to advocate against child abuse and sexual abuse. It made very little sense to me and it seemed like it ignored some serious questions, and previous history!, that concept raises when someone equals bodies to property. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Body shaming

thelassinlinen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Antisemitism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Xenophobia

betsygrace's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

I really liked this book. Coming from an evangelical background, this gave me a lot to reflect on in terms of breaking down my own faith to learn which parts were toxic and which weren’t, and how to move forward. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body shaming, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, and Incest

Minor: Addiction

cate_with_a_c's review against another edition

dark sad

2.75

I really thought that it was interesting at the start even with how disturbing it was. But then in the middle of her childhood I got so bored. I wish it had been edited a lot tighter. 
Faith Jones’ telling shows how messed up the cult is but she also comes off as self righteous too often in her narrative. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence