Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

14 reviews

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Medical content, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

blakeandbooks's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Self harm, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

emilyhcox's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

solenodon's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.5

Intense and poetic — will be re reading at some point. Trigger warning for sure 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Alcohol, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Abortion, Vomit, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Racism, Sexual content, Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Self harm

stagasaurus's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, Mental illness, Death of parent, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Abortion, Child abuse, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Confinement, Eating disorder, Self harm, and Sexual content

mlewis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Vomit, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual violence, Abandonment, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

Minor: Colonisation and Sexual content

spinesinaline's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

A book I’ve heard great things about. This is a very personal memoir, told by the author after a hospitalization and diagnosis of PTSD and bipolar disorder. Mailhot writes beautifully and painfully, but I do wonder about how personal some memoirs get — I’m assuming her husband would’ve consented to this writing but everything is on display in a very uncomfortable way. I’m certainly not a fan of his after this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Pregnancy, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

whatannikareads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

probably one of the most well-executed books i've ever read. such a particular, poignant writing style that's unflinching, blunt, but emotional. can definitely understand why people would give it a 5/5. this is more of a me problem if anything--the book has many unspoken pockets of underlying meanings that require big brain and time to really dive into and process, and my pea brain and lack of free time prevented me from really sitting with the pieces, so i don't think i absorbed as much information as intended. but there are really powerful sentences in here that stand alone in their quality.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

atsundarsingh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

This was so, so hard to read. It was incredibly poetic, but also one of the rawest things I have ever read, and so painful. This is so intimate and personal, I almost can't believe the author shared all of this. Mailhot is so inspiring, and so intense. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence

oliviaray's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts