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charlie_cheese's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Homophobia
ayoderable's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Sexual assault
Minor: Body shaming, Alcohol, and Fatphobia
veepopp's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Fatphobia and Body shaming
Minor: Lesbophobia and Adult/minor relationship
remimicha's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Alcohol, Biphobia, Blood, Body shaming, Cursing, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Animal death, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Lesbophobia
kayaisreading's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Drug use
Moderate: Vomit, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness
Minor: Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, and Body shaming
luce98's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Fatphobia and Body shaming
124smilehd's review against another edition
3.5
It did have a massive impact on how I view queer relationships in a social context, especially as a queer person myself. Early in the story I did lowkey think that this was not the best political time to talk about such a dark subject that could be used as evidence as to why queer relationships are inherently not good, but Machado seems to have taken this into account as she constantly talks about how we as minorities tend to glorify and idolize our identity as a form of survival and this inherently opens the door for abuse. It was a hard reality to swallow but I do think she made a valid and very important point, that our biggest resistance as a community is to be allowed to just be human, flaws and all.
I will say though that the writing style threw me off, it was just hard really commit to the micro chapters. The other big flaw was that she depends a lot on footnotes which seems odd for a memoir type of book. It almost felt as if she had to prove her own existence and memory by using other sources, even though by her own admittance there are very few written works on queer abuse? Idk I felt like this weakened her own voice by depending too much on outside validation.
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Gaslighting and Fatphobia
savvypotions's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Abandonment, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship
hannahnew's review against another edition
4.0
Minor: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, and Sexual violence
devynreadsnovels's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Infidelity
Minor: Body shaming