Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

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

40 reviews

byashleylamar'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

avvamapia's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

This was a good memoir. I think the time line of somethings confused me (like her saying she lived in Alaska? Maybe I missed it but that piece of information came out of nowhere for me) and while it didn't detract from the message and the sympathy I felt for her struggle I was just confused by it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

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

holy_moly_colee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Car accident

chemeducator's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Car accident

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

juliarenae's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.0

showed the reality, raw, and honest

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Classism