Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Nella casa dei tuoi sogni by Carmen Maria Machado

48 reviews

eoghannnivall's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

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. 

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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

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I found it. The perfect memoir. The writing throughout this entire book is so beautiful even while describing the most harrowing details that I couldn't believe I was allowed to read it. It is beautiful and horrifying. There is also a lot of important commentary throughout about how women can easily be monsters in lesbian relationships, that abusive relationships are not exclusively a heterosexual phenomenon and the myth of the "lesbian utopia" is just that, myth. In reality, lesbian relationships have the capability to be just as toxic as any other relationship, that we should believe queer women when they come forward with their stories and not dismiss them. Abuse is abuse, be the perpetrator a man, woman, or gender nonconforming. I think this one is gonna stay with me for a really really long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Infidelity, Medical content, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, and Gore

Minor: Blood

umerabab's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, and Sexism

peppermintstrawberries's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

bluejay21's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Biphobia, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Violence

maihindawi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Shining a light into darkest corners of queer history and the politics, literature and media that conspire to keep those stories stricken from the public record, Carmen Maria Machado tells her own story of survival from an abusive lesbian relationship during her mid-20s. 

The short and oscillating chapters of, at times: personal memoir, at others: speculative fiction, film history, and queer theory, each add an essential angle from which to view the complex web of trauma that defined Machado's relationship with the unnamed "woman in the Dream House". Machado's memories are all recounted in second-person (addressed to, and recounted by, "you") which makes the narrative voice powerfully intimate and the plunge into toxicity all the more difficult and horrifying to stomach, as you imagine yourself in all of these contexts, or - more often than not - utterly displaced without any context at all...

It's rare that a book grips me to the point I literally cannot put it down and I must devour it in its entirety on a single day. This book did just that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual assault

izzywizzy's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Heart-wrenching + mind-opening. One of the best books i've ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment