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saintsunshine's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Alcohol, Homophobia, Drug use, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, and Murder
Minor: Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Dementia, Vomit, Sexual harassment, and Fire/Fire injury
pirate's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse
Minor: Sexual assault, Death, and Fire/Fire injury
marabdelmageed's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Rape, Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Drug use, and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Abandonment, Biphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts
mallory10100's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Confinement, and Infidelity
Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Pregnancy
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Rape, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Vomit
this book really doesn’t feel like non fiction, but it’s a chilling true story and i highly recommend itrashi's review against another edition
5.0
Update: this has been moved to a 5 star rating out of sheer will, because I don’t know what else to do with my thoughts about it. Will have to read it again and maybe revise.
Graphic: Gaslighting, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Bullying
bisexualwentworth's review against another edition
5.0
I feel weird about rating nonfiction, but I'm giving this book five stars anyway because I loved it so much.
I know this won't be for everyone. If you don't like experimental writing or you're not already familiar with queer theory or queer history to some extent, this book isn't a great starting point.
But if you know that you like those things and you want an examination of queer abuse—specifically abusive sapphic relationships and the archival silence that surrounds them—you should definitely read this book.
Certain chapters felt like crawling into my own brain if I'd lived different experiences, which was very surreal.
Carmen Maria Machado was already a favorite author for me after Her Body and Other Parties, but she's even more of one now. I love what she does with her writing, and I can't wait to read more of it.
2023 REREAD THOUGHTS:
This hurts now. When I read this the first time, a lot of stuff resonated, but mostly I found it brilliant on the level of structure. I thought it was doing brilliant and important work. I still do, for sure, but now I’ve been in an abusive queer relationship, and reading this was very very painful. I’m honestly not sure why I did this to myself. Hopefully, maybe, it will help. We’ll see.
Graphic: Domestic abuse
Moderate: Homophobia, Biphobia, and Lesbophobia
Minor: Death, Fatphobia, and Fire/Fire injury
toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Infidelity, Medical content, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Death
Moderate: Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, and Gore
Minor: Blood
sweetmusic22's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Abandonment and Fire/Fire injury