Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Rememberings by Sinéad O'Connor

16 reviews

leighmayon's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Medical trauma, Sexism, Car accident, Chronic illness, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Pedophilia and Abortion

Minor: Slavery, Gun violence, Cancer, Child death, Eating disorder, and Trafficking

nicolaparty's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, and Car accident

grtwrrn's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Car accident, Colonisation, Eating disorder, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Xenophobia

zaic's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

cw: child abuse, religious trauma

This is a very moving memoir of the many abuses and the blessings that Sinéad O'Connor has lived through, in her own words. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Mental illness, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy and Drug use

laurahedd's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Drug use, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death of parent

travelseatsreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

I feel like I need to preface this review by saying I've a huge amount of respect for Sinead and the work she did to highlight the atrocities of the Irish church. My review is completely based on the book and how it reads.

First of all the book is being marketed as a tell-all memoir in which Sinead details her story through the years, unfortunately it doesn't read that way. To me it felt about 20% memoir and 80% discography. There are parts where she talks about her childhood abuse and a quick chapter about her children at the end however the rest feels like tid bits of sentences thrown into paragraph upon paragraph about her songs.
While it was an interesting read overall I can't help feeling the book has more to do with her upcoming album which is due to be released rather than her telling her own true story.

TW for child abuse, addiction, mental illness and suicide. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt