Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley

5 reviews

ellie_rowo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

ellaollenburg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

I thought that this book was extremely emotional. Priscilla writes in a way that makes you feel as if you are experiencing it all with her. She tells these important events in her and Elvis's relationship that changed the way I had viewed the couple all my life. While I have previously known that fame isn't as glamorous as it seems, I never thought all of this could come along with it.
I also thought this book had an adventurous undertone. While it is informative and even a bit depressing Priscilla did a phenomenal job at always trailing bad moments with great life events. While they had numerous issues and were nowhere near perfect, they had a lot of good moments as well. I personally liked how Priscilla really focused on the fact that Elvis should be portrayed as a man. Yes, he was the king of rock and roll and a famous rockstar, but at the end of the day, he was a man. A man who gets angry and fights with his wife, a man who drinks too much and commits adultery, but still just a man. Priscilla had always said that no matter if it made the outlook better or worse, people always say Elvis as the idea of him, never just Elvis. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Minor: Violence and Adult/minor relationship

theextensivereader's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

Priscilla was very stuck in the narrative of being a hero in a romantic love story. It reads very differently 40 years on. I can understand what drew Sofia Copolla to make this story into a film.  Looking forward to it 🎬

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Violence, and Adult/minor relationship

sarahreadsalotofbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.0

I knew Elvis was a mess but I didn’t realize he was an abusive groomer.

He began grooming Priscilla when she was 14 telling her how to behave, what to wear, how to wear her makeup.  By the time she was 16 they were sexually involved and he had convinced her to take sexual photos. He was emotionally and mentally abusive, as well as physically abusive at times.

Throughout all of this he was also grooming her parents, eventually getting them to consent to allow her to leave them to go live with him for the remainder of her high school years. 

Priscilla comes across as someone with Stockholm syndrome finding his behavior humorous as she narrated this at times. She describes the time he raped her as “forcefully made love to her”. 

As despicable a person as he was, this was a well-written, informative book.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Violence, Cursing, Mental illness, Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Rape, Infidelity, and Sexual content

americattt's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted sad medium-paced

3.25

"That night he read to me, searching for answers, jus as he had done the year before and the year before that and the years before that."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Violence