Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land

41 reviews

miss_creant's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

This is the best book that I have read in a long time. Every human being should read this. I watched the Netflix series first, then read the book. I couldn’t put the book down.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Classism

ashenwilde's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

kasmorgan's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Gaslighting

leefox's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Classism

franm2023's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

Minor: Car accident

crybabybea's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.75

A good reminder that you never know the extent of what someone is going through, or the reason behind the decisions they make, and to have a little more empathy. 

I appreciated the look inside the complicated nature of navigating extreme poverty and homelessness, and single motherhood. I especially found it eye-opening to see the unnecessarily judgmental and harsh standards placed on those seeking help either via social services or homeless/domestic violence shelters. 

I found it hard to get through the middle portion of the book as the author spent a lot of time detailing the different homes she cleaned while working as a maid. Though I recognize the purpose of these scenes and think they did a great job juxtaposing the author's struggle to live with the privilege of those she worked for.

I think someone who doesn't know a lot about poverty or the experience of being poor would gain more knowledge from this.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, and Classism

jsant's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

A powerful memoir of a young single mother working hard to make ends meet. I gained a valuable perspective reading this book. Made me think. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

siobhanward's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

For the past few weeks, my Tiktok has been FULL of clips from the Netflix adaptation of this book, which was enough to make me curious about it. The book itself was ok (though clearly Netflix added a lot of their own content to it - almost nothing I've seen of the series is actually from the book). I understand other reviewers' surprise that Stephanie was 28 when the events of the book began, but I will also take a moment to acknowledge that while I'm currently 28, I have a huge amount of privileges that she has not and comparing where I am at 28 to where Land was is not useful.

While I was definitely frustrated with Land's decisions at times, I'll also say that I'm really not someone who can judge, having never been in her position. I will say that my critique of the book is a bit more to do with how things were sometimes laid out (some things got rushed through while others felt dragged out), but the book was solid and Land told her story in a really interesting way. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

God was this good and impactful. Just a really clear look at how poverty looks in this godforsaken country, and how you can't "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" if the system is set up to make sure that you can't move forward. And Ms. Land didn't even have systemic racism working against her! Just. incredible and so important.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Abandonment

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Abortion, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

maddiet425's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Car accident, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Excrement, and Vomit