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Uncultured

Daniella Mestyanek Young

4.2 AVERAGE

phoebealittle's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail

skycub's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

katieb1034's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Horrifying!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide

bread19's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

coffeekat's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Medical trauma

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Sexual harassment, War

jessnichole's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Islamophobia, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Stalking, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

veritasia's review against another edition

5.0

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A wonderfully written memoir that goes over the nuances of trauma of being in a cult. Although that barely scrapes the surface of this work.

jess_ivette23's review against another edition

3.0

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Daniella's story was heartbreaking and insightful, as well as crushingly honest about American culture. It was interesting and a good read.

I lost a bit of interest in the second half, mostly due to pacing. It felt like some parts were rushed and others were drawn out so I ended up skimming through some of it.

madisonrhoff's review

4.0

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I knew nothing about this book going into it, but I learned so much about the cult “The Children of God” and I loved how the writer started from her earliest memories. I found it very interesting that she was always aware something wasn’t right about her life and she would leave one day. And then the fact that she joined the army, another cult, after escaping The Children of God was insane to me. I understand the circumstances but it was just painful to listen to (I read this as an audiobook). Overall solid read.

bbpreads's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced