Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

40 reviews

ajoyr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Child abuse, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

clarabooksit's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Pregnancy, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Alcohol, Colonisation, Grief, and Alcoholism

popcornreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Emotional abuse

lauradvb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Racism, Gaslighting, and Death of parent

seeceeread's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

💭 "Séliš stories are a lot like its art: sparse and interested in blank space; the work must be striking."

This is a torrent. Relentless, stream-of-conscious nonsequiturs circle back to each other. The book is a menacing bath of tales:

assault and need and love and violence and therapy and mothering and child separation and tenderness and despair and and and

. Mailhot seems to want to purge the hurt, to exorcise her uncertainty by naming: she has felt, craved, demanded, retreated. 

I winced to witness, to relive so intimately all that has sliced her.

The author nicks as she tells us of the small ladder she carved into her arm while pregnant.

Like her girlhood self, we are coaxed and cornered into small spaces with the grotesque, wondering if it's safe to speak, to look away. I wanted to hold her at times, a quiet listener as an irregular heartbeat sang of heartache. At others, I wanted to run away, to commit violence against her selfish lover and to snap her into nonchalance. These whiplashes of emotion and intention mirror hers, further evidence she submerged me.

💭 "The tips of your fingers felt like wet grapes. I wanted to bite every one."

Expect to be nipped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Violence, Abandonment, Classism, Colonisation, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide, and Child abuse

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Classism

alipp's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Quick and reflective read. So keen to read more by Therese. Honest, raw and relatable

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

heartmaiden's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Abortion, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

stevie's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Incest, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Self harm, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Grief, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Racism, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Colonisation

nadinebean's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abortion, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Self harm, and Mental illness

Minor: Colonisation, Cursing, Grief, and Racism

hannaheiserman's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt