Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Nella casa dei tuoi sogni by Carmen Maria Machado

18 reviews

mallory10100's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

wow this book was amazing. heartbreaking yet quick. i highly recommend. i really liked the unique format. 

---

Content Warnings

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 it

ulmaridae's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

"You were not always just a you. I was whole, a symbiotic relationship between my best and worst parts, and then, in one sense of the definition, I was cleaved. A neat lob that took First Person, that assured confident woman, the girl detective, the adventurer, away from the Second, who was always anxious and vibrating like a too-small breed of dog."

"Even the enduring symbol of queerness, the rainbow, is a promise not to repeat an act of supreme violence by a capricious and rageful god. 'I won't flood the whole world again, it was a one-time thing, I swear. Do you trust me?' And the later, a threat: 'The next time motherfuckers, it will be fire'."

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Car accident, and Biphobia

rachaelallyn's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

_s_i_s_s_i's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

I thought this book was absolutely brilliant but it also took me weeks to read. Not just every chapter, but almost every page was triggering if you have experienced domestic abuse. That may seem obvious, as that is the subject of the book, but CMM’s immersive writing style and choice of second person perspective got to me in a way few other things have. 

That may be specific to me and my experience, but as CMM says in the books <mild spoiler> “It was terrible because I wanted to believe that my love was unique, and my pain was unique… but then I opened book after book about lesbian abuse and saw pseudonyms women regurgitating everything that happened to me. There’s a pie chart that encompasses those years of my life” <mild spoiler> So I wanted to include a more detailed trigger warning then I seen in other reviews. 
I volunteer with a crisis line and deal with DV content on the regular, and feel fine about it, but if I sat and read more than five pages at a time of “In The Dream House“ I would be thrown into turmoil.
I’m a bisexual woman that was in a relationship with a heterosexual man and almost every account that CMM shared of her experiences was a carbon copy to my life. Well I don’t want to shift the focus, my queer identity was a focal piece of the abuse I received and I think the chapters that spoke to the universality of abuse felt incredibly poignant to me. 
I would absolutely add this book to curriculum around abuse, specifically emotional and verbal and the complexities of how that is different from physical abuse.

The -0.25 stars is for that I didn’t care for the footnote style she chose over using endnotes. If there was commentary that was needed on that page, I would have preferred it be incorporated into the text  

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

leahlovesloslibros's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

I'm not really sure how to write this review. On the one hand, I don't feel right in giving a lower rating to a memoir because I didn't love reading the writing style; on the other hand, I thought the writing style was kind of brilliant. Overall, I believe that Machado was incredibly brave for writing this memoir, as any victim of abuse typically deals with trauma, and that can be so difficult to put into words of any format. The fact that she is in a WLW relationship makes her abuse that much less common to read about, as many people don't even believe that abuse can occur within same-sex relationships [although it absolutely can, and does, occur]. The existence of this book is so necessary, and brings to light an important topic in our society, whether or not you identify as part of the LGBTQIAP+ community. The style of writing won't be for everyone, and there are many difficult topics within the book (which shouldn't be surprising, given what the book is about), but if you can get through those two main aspects, this is a solid read.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Drug use, Homophobia, and Mental illness

Minor: Biphobia, Fatphobia, Car accident, Infertility, and Rape

Additional TW/CW: brief Harry Potter reference, divorce, psychological abuse, trauma

jojo_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

silviaaa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Vomit, Car accident, and Homophobia

skudiklier's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I have no words for this book; it was so compelling, beautifully written, heartbreaking, and terrifying. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Stalking