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Good Morning, Monster

Catherine Gildiner

4.33 AVERAGE

bougainvillaya's review against another edition

3.5

emotional medium-paced

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good! easy to read. it must be said that she really does like freud, and im not sure her psychology holds up lol. but seems like it worked for these 5, which is good.

nikkij's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

jamiepatterson's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark medium-paced

aarmstrong3's review against another edition

4.0

fast-paced

dunnema22's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

jfalslev94's review against another edition

3.25

dark informative sad medium-paced

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Good Morning, Monster was a heavy read. The book follows five patients who endured extreme trauma and shows how they worked through it in therapy. Their stories are intense, sometimes hard to believe, and often tough to sit with. There’s a lot to admire in their resilience and the way Dr. Gildiner unpacks how the mind copes with pain. At the same time, I sometimes felt the book leaned too much on the most shocking cases, almost as if the darker the story, the more it proved her point. I would have liked to see a mix of struggles, not just the most tragic. Still, hearing both the patients’ growth and the psychologist’s own missteps made it a worthwhile read, even if it wasn’t always easy to get through.

cody_eckelkamp's review against another edition

4.25

informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

sarafultz's review against another edition

3.75

dark inspiring reflective medium-paced

bookish_erika's review against another edition

dark informative

supmariss's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced