Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

65 reviews

michelleub's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Alcohol, Death, Sexual content, Alcoholism, and Eating disorder

bethantg's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

2.75

I read this because my friend loves it and for that reason I am glad it exists. I know some people really love this and I can see why, but I think it's a kind of enjoyment that really hinges on relatability, and it largely wasn't relatable to me. Some parts were really beautifully and sensitively done, especially towards the end. The only thing knocking it down a little bit for me is a bit of a strange one, which is that it seems to inhabit a worldview in which everyone is entirely self-absorbed, which seems strange given the book is mainly centred around love. It gave many parts intended for humour a more negative tinge which unfortunately affected how much I could enjoy the book. Still, a very light, easy read with a lot of heart that I can see being a source of comfort for people who find it relatable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Sexual content and Death

mangofraiche's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Drug use, Grief, Alcoholism, and Cancer

yunuepub's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Grief, Mental illness, Alcohol, Death, Dysphoria, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Sexual content, Drug abuse, and Drug use

lucyrudd's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Sexual content, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Addiction, Drug use, Death, Eating disorder, Grief, Child death, and Cursing

ella_elizabeth66's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Every girl in college should read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Sexual content

mary_do_12's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

to be honest, i think i’m simply to young for this book. while i really enjoyed reading about dolly aldertons experience in her twenties and what she grew to learn and realize, i haven’t been confronted with the problems she had to deal with yet. and that is simply due to the fact that i’m not in my twenties and therefore could not relate to a lot of things she wrote about. and that not just in experiences and thoughts, but also in mundane things such as shows and music she adored. the gap between her millennial personality and my gen z character could not be crossed easily.
yet after all, there were a lot of important topics discussed in her book and especially knowing that it was all true and hers made her story so incredibly authentic and real.

and who knows, maybe i’ll think back on this in my twenties.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual content, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

arthurjentges04's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.0

this book is incredibly well written and the audiobook well narrated. dolly alderton knows her shit and how to articulate herself. i found this book to be incredibly relatable for the most part (not so much the turning 30/existential crisis part, because i’m 19 and barely and adult lol, but the rest). this book speaks about societal pressures, romance, eating disorders, unhealthy coping through drug and alcohol abuse, growing into adulthood and out of your childhood, the importance of platonic love(!!!), loss and grief, letting go and accepting and sooo much more. no matter your age, this book has something important to say to you and you have something valuable to learn from it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Grief, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Addiction, Mental illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Death

seasonofreads's review against another edition

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

5.0

As someone on the cusp of turning 30, this book reached deep inside me and pulled out some much needed nostalgia and epiphanies about the last decade. Dolly is funny and smart, daring and brave, full of good advice and searing insights, and honest about her flaws in a way that is inspiring. You don’t have to be a fabulous blond party girl to get where she is coming from. You only need to be a woman who is living through their 20s and 30s to feel seen by this book. I’d venture to say women of all ages would feel seen, but I’m not in my further decades yet. Dolly’s story telling is vivid and romantic and so personal that you will hear her voice in your head even after you close the book. I loved it every minute of this memoir of sorts. I will be inhaling her next book asap! I highly recommend this book to one and all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Death

Minor: Mental illness, Body shaming, Cursing, Grief, and Sexual content

valegbecerra's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

Felt like facetiming a friend with a facemask on. 

Added a parasocial relationship with Dolly Alderton to my cart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, Eating disorder, and Alcoholism