Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays by Lauren Hough

4 reviews

elwh's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

An excellent read about someone who’s lived so many lives. Shocking, funny, beautiful, and sad, often at the same time. It’s a good read, and worth it, but it’s hard. It took me a long while to get through because of that. The essays categorize sections of Hough’s life nicely, if a bit messily, which can make it hard to follow at points. But I liked the deep tangents-within-tangents, and the way things were connected.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Cursing

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Hate crime, Sexism, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, and Rape

Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Abortion, and Pandemic/Epidemic

lizzym126's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Racism, Emotional abuse, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Confinement, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

kelsie4's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

2.75

I typically like books about hardships. For some reason the tone felt off. Despite the way she handles not getting a perfect review and really any criticism aside, I thought this book was fine. It’s an interesting perspective to read from as I’m sure most people might not have any experiences like these given the time all of this was happening. Learning how tough it really was for the LGBTQIA’s+ community breaks my heart and I’m proud of the somewhat progress we’ve made (though in this time that could all be reversed). I thought the stories were interesting but just came off with a tone of just straight up complaining and totally against having an optimistic out look in life. Book feels like a total bummer the entire timeline.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Ableism, Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

katehaswell's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Addiction, and Hate crime