Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Educated by Tara Westover

378 reviews

erinbeingliterate's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

kira20's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

melissasaurus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Medical trauma

trapdorr's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

I wasn’t expecting to like it as much as I did but it was captivating! Her way of writing was incredible. She has a way of explaining her reasoning and thoughts while young and abused so eloquently that your heart aches. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Humans are such wonderful and terrifying beings, which I think this book really spells out. They can be so incredibly hurtful and so helpful and dangerous and damaging and also somehow make it out okay. This book is really shocking, but it also shows how deeply mental illness can affect a family and community. I'm really proud of Tara for making it out. This book was a wild read because most memoirs are on lives that happened before Google and you can't actually buy essential oils from their parents at this very moment. The writing style wasn't my favorite, but I thought it was fitting for the story and subject. Definitely a book that I would recommend folks to read. I think it got the publicity that it deserved. I just feel for all the children (all the children) still trapped in that family system. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, and Alcohol

Big content warnings about bodily injuries.

caqui_caqui's review against another edition

inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal cruelty

sary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Terminal illness

carmentxx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

this book is written with the most incredible hope. i have never read a book with such an incredible undercurrent of the force of hope, in fact it has moved me to tears reading it. i don’t think i really have words for how incredible this memoir is. only an overwhelming sense of sadness, respect, hope and admiration for Dr Westover. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Antisemitism

laurajordensharris's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

idkimoutofideas's review against another edition

challenging inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Alcohol