Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness

48 reviews

simoneliesbeth's review

emotional sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Bullying

daphnehumming's review

funny hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

JVN / Jack is charming and vulnerable. At times it feels so painful to watch him make mistakes, but it feels validating to hear the story of someone who didn’t always handle situations perfectly. He is very funny and the audiobook has a lot of personality. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Death of parent, Cancer, and Addiction

Moderate: Sexual assault and Child abuse

tieflingmom's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Cancer, Rape, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Dysphoria, Addiction, Homophobia, Death, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Child abuse, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Animal death, Biphobia, Dementia, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Self harm

_alicereadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

JVN was always my favourite in Queer Eye. Their bubbly personality and their ability to make anyone feel seen and loved is incredible. I didn’t know much about their backstory before going into this book. 

The challenges and hurdles and experiences that they have faced throughout their life were sometimes hard to read. I am always amazed by the way people can come through trauma like that and be such a joyous and loving person, both to themselves and others. 

I do wish I had listened to this as an audiobook as I think I would have enjoyed it even more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Addiction

Moderate: Rape, Homophobia, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Sexual content

amoremeg's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

5.0

This book was so informative and deeply JVN. I learned so much about them and all of it through the most original and self-loving perspective. Truthful, compassionate, and funny the whole way through

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cancer, Drug abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Addiction, and Chronic illness

Minor: Homophobia, Infidelity, and Gun violence

minaegg's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

4.75

Very vulnerable and heavy read with difficult subject matter. The book is still beautiful and uplifting, with some lovely humor. Jonathan shows that despite experiencing trauma and adversity, we all have the capacity to heal and thrive. Ultimately his story is about learning to love yourself and to forgive yourself, to care for yourself, to know that you matter, always. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Medical content, Homophobia, Mental illness, Blood, Eating disorder, Cursing, Fatphobia, and Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Child abuse, and Terminal illness

rcsreads's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Addiction, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Bullying, and Drug use

asummrox's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Death of parent, Sexual content, Death, and Eating disorder

alexandrias_library's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Drug abuse

streberkatze's review

emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Homophobia, and Drug use