Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar

10 reviews

13_dear_reader_13's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Panic attacks/disorders

vireogirl's review

challenging dark hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry

Moderate: Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death of parent, Child abuse, Grief, Infertility, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Blood, Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Vomit, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Panic attacks/disorders

kyriannaj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Moderate: Grief, Misogyny, Alcohol, Abandonment, Sexism, Vomit, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Violence, Child abuse, Addiction, and Infertility

Minor: Alcoholism, Rape, Death, Miscarriage, and Pandemic/Epidemic

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

   A memoir from one of the Duggar children and her journey from a child on reality TV to adulthood.
    I feel like she went WAY too easy on her parents. She might not want to go too hard on them because of legal proceedings and her relationship with her siblings. But her parents completely brainwashed her, and she overlooked much of that in this book. As well as not getting much into how IBL is a cult, she mentioned it but didn't get into it much.
    This book was a bit surface-level. I hope she's able to work through more therapy. It was quite rage-inducing, at the Duggar parents and the church book. Her Dad is the worst! He's an expert manipulator. 

Narrator Rating: 3 stars
  I like that she read her memoir, but her voice was easy to get bored by.

 Extra ratings:  Fluff-NA  Heartfelt-3/5   Helpful-2/5    Horror-NA   Inspiration-NA   
Love aka Romance-NA  Mystery-NA    Predictability-NA  Spice-NA   Suspense-NA   Tear- 2.5/5  Thrill-NA   Humor-NA

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Medical content, Pregnancy, Grief, Sexism, Misogyny, Bullying, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Blood, Incest, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, War, Pedophilia, Body shaming, Cancer, and Sexual assault

Minor: Miscarriage, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Death, Gun violence, Alcohol, Murder, Rape, Transphobia, Vomit, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts

arcus's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

Only a couple of editing mistakes lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, and Pedophilia

dealingwithdragons's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This is an excellent book about two people who are still going through the process of deconstructing harmful beliefs they were raised with. I'd like to see Derek apologize publicly to Jazz Jennings, and I'd like to see both Jill and Derek examine their beliefs about and behavior toward the LGBTQ community as carefully as they have examined their beliefs about women wearing pants and drinking alcohol.

With all of that said, this is extremely well written and is a necessary read for anyone seeking to understand what it can be like to leave a fundamentalist cult and an unhealthy family dynamic. It's also an interesting portrait of a man, Jim Bob Duggar, who starts with fundamentalist beliefs and is further transformed and sucked into the cult by wealth, praise, and fame.

Some prior knowledge about the Duggar family and the Institute for Basic Life Principles is helpful to understand the scope of what Jill is speaking about. I'd recommend the Leaving Eden podcast and the Hulu documentary "Shiny Happy People" to anyone looking for introductory information about either topic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Infertility, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Miscarriage, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Cancer, Incest, Child abuse, Gun violence, Colonisation, and Pedophilia

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic and Infidelity

Jill goes into great detail describing her father's emotional abuse and gaslighting, including controlling behavior and shaming her for what she wears. Jill also describes the traumatic birth of her second son in great detail - both she and her son survive, but it is harrowing. She does not describe details of her brother's sexual assaults on her and her sisters, but she does go into detail about the fallout and the public shame she and her sisters were put through as a result of Intouch magazine illegally leaking report documents about the abuse. If you haven't heard, her brother Josh was also convicted of possession of child sex abuse material and is currently in prison. Jill and Derek were missionaries for several years, which is colonization, and they do not examine this with a critical eye in the book.

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Misogyny, Infertility, Sexual assault, Rape, Body shaming, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Gaslighting, Sexism, Medical trauma, Bullying, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Grief, and Death

Minor: Alcohol and Pandemic/Epidemic

financial abuse

strayedthoughts's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body shaming, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Infertility, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Incest

Minor: Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Terminal illness, Cancer, Gun violence, War, Death, and Miscarriage

kelleywithanextrae's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, and Body horror

Minor: Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Addiction, Death of parent, Stalking, Body shaming, Cancer, and Toxic relationship

rat_girly's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

I found this memoir really insightful and reflective. I have almost no prior knowledge of the Duggar family, but finished the book feeling proud of Jill for all her growth and progress she’s made. Some parts were glossed over - like the Tweets from Derick which I later found out were transphobic - which was disappointing but not surprising. However, I feel hopeful that Jill has the played a massive part in breaking the cycle of abuse and manipulation for her children and their future generations to come. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Colonisation, Panic attacks/disorders, Incest, Infertility, and Cancer

Minor: Death, Miscarriage, Vomit, Stalking, Alcohol, and Kidnapping