Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley

4 reviews

brassmonkey's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

3.25

Less of a memoir, more of a series of disjointed essays that fail to deliver a cohesive narrative. Still a beautifully written and gut wrenching piece. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Homophobia, Rape, Religious bigotry, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexism, Suicide attempt, and Racism

Minor: Cursing, Pedophilia, Fatphobia, Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, and Physical abuse

An instance of bestialiy was described.

peach_pit's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Outing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Rape

Moderate: Eating disorder, Addiction, Mental illness, Outing, and Rape

Minor: Child abuse and Animal cruelty

skeptic_hecate's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring fast-paced

4.5

This book is so well written, and the story hits deep. It broke my heart, but somehow gave me hope. Although I know many people, especially vulnerable teenagers face the horrible treatment of conversion therapy every day, I couldn't imagine how hard would it be. The author really made me fall into his shoes, the descriptions are so vivid, in a very crude heartbreaking way. Yet, at the end, there is hope. Highly recommended read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

ezismythical's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

This is definitely a rough read. But if you are a queer person who grew up in Christian churches, you’ll find a lot to relate to. Also this very obviously deals with conversion therapy, so keep that in mind.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Religious bigotry, and Homophobia

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Self harm

Minor: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, and Miscarriage