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colorsinautumn's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, and Alcohol
lizlikesfrogs's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment
librarymouse's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Eating disorder
Minor: Pregnancy
carriewnettles's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Gaslighting
kds's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Alcoholism and Bullying
Minor: Infidelity and Suicidal thoughts
aproudmc13's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Blood, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Classism
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, Vomit, Grief, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Abandonment
painausten314's review against another edition
5.0
This memoir examines and exposes domestic abuse in lesbian relationships and queer relationships overall. The writing made me feel all the right things at the right moments, and left me feeling her relief as she brought her story to its close. It is weird to say that someone can write about something as ugly as abuse in a beautiful way, but Machado does.
Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia
ambamsaurus's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Gaslighting
rieviolet's review against another edition
3.5
I did not get along with the narrative structure, I found the rapid-fire succession of chapters (supposed to show different genres and narrative styles) too much disjointed and confusing. The writing style is a bit too much experimental for me.
I liked much more the chapters that were "essay-like", exploring queer history and theory. However, I think that this mixing of informative chapters together with more literary and elaborately written ones was a bit jarring, it felt like two different books mashed up.
Graphic: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Animal death, Biphobia, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy
sayhar13's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia