Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

12 reviews

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Medical trauma, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Gaslighting, Death, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Dysphoria, Pregnancy, Sexism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Misogyny

echood's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Suicide, Gaslighting, Stalking, and Medical content

Minor: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Terminal illness, and Death

plumpatio's review against another edition

informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

 Late to the party, I had yet to watch any adaptations or read beyond the headlines when I downloaded this audiobook. Read by the author, this account layers the various accounts from his reporting for WSJ and, toward the end, provides insight into his own encounters with Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes as the fraud began to unravel. Helpful in providing detailed context to what I already knew broadly regarding the biotechnology startup, I appreciate Carreyrou's refusal to speculate wildly about motivations, but am still left wondering how exactly Holmes rationalized her behavior and how she expected to pull it off. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Blood, Suicide, Bullying, and Ableism

Moderate: Medical trauma, Stalking, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Death

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

ethrbo's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, and Medical content

Minor: Suicide

xwritingstoriesx's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

4.75

4.75 stars. A concise, compelling account of Theranos chronicling the rise and fall of the unicorn biotech company. Bad Blood should appeal to those who have an interest in biosciences/biomedicine or criminal fraud/economic crime. I greatly enjoyed the narration from the whistle-blower himself. As a novice non-fiction reader, I found that this was a thoroughly enjoyable read and it gave me greater confidence to explore and inquire further beyond my comfort zone. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Suicide, and Emotional abuse

natrix's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Blood, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

jessthanthree's review against another edition

informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting

Moderate: Suicide, Cancer, and Toxic relationship

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Emotional abuse, Bullying, and Gaslighting

Minor: Sexual assault

odrib's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Bullying, Gaslighting, and Stalking

Moderate: Blood, Suicide, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Cancer

samstg's review against another edition

informative tense medium-paced

4.75

Super interesting! Bad Blood follows the rise and fall of Theranos though the stories of those burned by the company, from business partners to employees who dared to speak up about Theranos' false claims.

It especially picks up when the the author, who original broke the story for the Wall Street journal, includes his involvement in breaking the story and how Theranos tried to silence the story from ever coming to light.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Blood, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Medical content