Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu

51 reviews

qrschulte's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Incredibly vulnerable and heartfelt, this memoir is highly relatable to anyone who’s ever felt the weight of familial and societal expectations. The audiobook is incredible, and you can really feel how much the decisions his family made affect him. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death, Death, Medical content, and Alcohol

annadelreads's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

“Whether you like it or not, you're getting better at something every day...No matter what you choose to do with your day, you are either helping to create a new habit or solidifying old ones.” 

Oh Simu... Thank you for an amazing narration of your wonderful book. I had thought it might be almost all about his acting life - especially during Shang-Chi but I was dead wrong. I'm actually glad I was wrong because I saw Simu now in a different perspective. I saw how his parents persevered and really did everything they can just so their family could grow up in Canada. I saw how Simu pushed himself to be better - both as a person and also his career. It's actually inspiring to see someone who has tried his very best to make his own parents proud of him by working in a career that made him miserable. He pushed and came out of that bubble his parents provided and knew he wanted a career as an actor. I'm literally crushing Simu a lot now.

A little summary of every act:

First act - Simu did warned us about how drowsy this would be since it was about how his parents met and migrated from China to Canada. But it was an eye-opener since I learned so much more about China in the early years. 
Second act - About how he grew up under his parents + college life.
Third act - His acting life

If you're here to here all about his Shang-Chi exclusives, you'll learn more if you just watch Youtubes or Google because there's only like one chapter about this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Xenophobia

blairlovesbooks's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0

I really liked Simu's explanation of his parents' background, though it felt like he hasn't totally worked through his resentment from their abuse. It's also refreshing when an actor comes across as an attention-grabber (because we all know they all are haha).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Racism

felofhe's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Classism

jackie_marion's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

miacorkum's review against another edition

inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, and Xenophobia

tungstenmouse's review against another edition

Over time I got bored and stopped reaching for this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

xeniba's review against another edition

I’ve been a fan of Simu for a number of years, starting with Kim’s Convenience. I was excited to read this memoir and was left feeling somewhat disappointed.

I found his tone pretty whiny and self-involved and I didn’t have much empathy for him once he got to college. The book also felt repetitive in terms of how often he talked about how much he hated accounting as how hard he worked at being an actor and what a go-getter he was.

I think this memoir actually made me like him less, which was surprising. That’s obviously my personal opinion and ymmv. I do think that it’s important that this memoir exists and even though I wasn’t really a fan, I’m sure it will resonate with many. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, and Xenophobia

linnea1801's review against another edition

inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book is so freaking good!!!! It’s a really inspiring story and everyone should read it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, and Xenophobia

shannnne_reads_words's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Racism