Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

When the World Didn't End by Guinevere Turner

10 reviews

parenthesis_enjoyer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Rape, Drug use, Incest, Body shaming, Sexism, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Pregnancy, Violence, and Eating disorder

Minor: Animal death and Death

poisonwood's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Eating disorder

librarymouse's review

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.5

Prior to reading Guinevere Turner's account of her childhood, I'd never heard of the Lyman family. Reading Turner's story though both retrospective reflection and direct quotes from journal entries from when the events she describes took place made her storytelling so immersive and the horrors she endured all the more gut wrenching.
The story starting with the failure of an ascension predicted by the leader of the cult Turner was born into was such an eye catching hook to being readers in, and while it primed me for some of what to expect for some of  he other Lyman family beliefs, other aspects of Turner's story were totally unexpected.
Guinevere Turner has a mastery of language and how to keep a reader invested that is tangible even in the diary excerpts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Rape, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Mental illness, and Misogyny

Moderate: Medical content, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Abortion

Minor: Death, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

vtlism's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense

4.25

Excellent memoir! Challenging, bleak, horrendous material, superbly written. I would be interested in a follow up. It's interesting she was raised in a cult but never calls it that, and I'm wondering about her recovery from that and the rest of her wildly fucked up childhood. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Rape, and Stalking

stargirlmolly's review

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol

Moderate: Blood, Eating disorder, Suicide, Stalking, Abortion, Cursing, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

daphnehumming's review

dark reflective medium-paced

5.0

Terrific memoir it really does read like a novel. It is dark,

you really have to admire Guinevere’s perseverance and writing ability, both as a young person and today. Unfortunately, the story doesn’t truly look up until the end. I can only hope Turner decides to write a sequel.

for fans of I’m glad my mom died.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Misogyny, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Eating disorder, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Homophobia, and Physical abuse

Minor: Death and Abortion

mondovertigo's review

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Rape, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Animal death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Pregnancy and Animal cruelty

ckreads28's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

The writing was vivid and graphic and tore at me a bit. I thought it would be a bit more about the cult. It was more so to do with the author's fears, traumas, and bravery of the things she faced afterward. She is a survivor and I wish there was more safety to get help.  Hoping this story can create change for others to get the help they need. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Gore, Medical content, Misogyny, and Rape

dustghosts's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexism, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, and Suicidal thoughts

sshabein's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Guinevere Turner's memoir about her childhood split between growing up in the Lyman Family cult and later an abusive household with her mother, step-father, and siblings was a harrowing read, but an interesting one. Using her diaries as scaffolding, she writes from the perspective of her child-self and how she felt about what was happening to her at the time. Though I maybe would have liked a little more adult-self perspective near the end, I also understand that writing it this way makes it all the more clear what it's like to be in these situations, how your perspective gets warped by what the adults in your life are telling you. It's also wild how she was actually somewhat safer within a cult than she was living with her mother/step-father, though of course, living with the Family had its own share of problems. I'd be interested to read another memoir from Turner about how she navigated life after getting free from these terrible situations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, and Eating disorder