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A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown

14 reviews

karitoy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Rape, Drug abuse, Abandonment, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Abortion

lmc_phd's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Drug abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

jaimeburley's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Alcoholism, and Pedophilia

sjexley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A million trigger warnings for this book, but also a million reasons to read it. Cupcake loses her mom at 11, and her world gets turned upside down. She spends her childhood and young adulthood in foster care, living on the streets and becoming heavily addicted to drugs and alcohol. Her story is one of perseverance, faith and second chances. I listened to this on audio and highly recommend bc even through all the trauma, I found myself laughing along with Cup's wittiness.  My book club really loved this one (maybe our highest rated book yet!) and we had a great discussion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Abortion, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Addiction, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

mmhender2's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

This memoir is raw, heartbreaking, inspiring, and at times hilarious. Cupcake's journey reveals many of the flaws in the family court system and foster care system of the 70s, of which I'm sure many remain today. Her story should make us all pause when we see people who are addicted to alcohol and drugs because we don't know their whole story. She discusses themes of trauma, avoiding emotions, chosen family, self-love, and forgiveness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Addiction, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

caitlyn_rehs's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Drug abuse, Rape, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug use, Violence, Pedophilia, Alcohol, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Abandonment, and Sexual violence

coldintro's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Abortion, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Addiction, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Trafficking, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

amanda884's review

challenging inspiring slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Rape

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Medical trauma, and Gun violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Abortion

carissa230's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

 Cupcake Brown is so raw and real in this book. She told every little detail of the life that she lived and the things that she did. The good, the bad, the horrible, it was all in there. There were parts in this book that were so crazy to me that it seemed like fiction.

As a person that loves someone that is an addict this book is hearbreaking. It is also a survival story. A story of someone that overcame all odds.

If you haven't already, and can deal with all the triggers, READ THIS BOOK. But there are triggers for almost everything you can think of. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Grief, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Cursing, Classism, Drug use, Drug abuse, Abortion, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Alcoholism, and Adult/minor relationship

achedester's review

emotional funny inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Bullying, Abortion, Pedophilia, Grief, Blood, Alcoholism, Addiction, Miscarriage, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, and Deadnaming