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sholtie's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Suicide and Trafficking
Minor: Sexual violence
stardustdreamer's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Classism, and Murder
Moderate: Child death, Suicide, and Racism
amandamethot's review
3.0
Moderate: Suicide, Trafficking, and Murder
alsoapples's review
4.5
Moderate: Trafficking, Confinement, Gaslighting, Murder, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Death, Racism, and Torture
orchidd's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Gaslighting
butlerebecca's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Murder, and Genocide
Moderate: Sexual assault
Minor: Racism, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Trafficking
librarymouse's review
5.0
Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Fatphobia, Trafficking, Suicide, Bullying, Grief, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Toxic friendship
twilightfan420's review
4.0
Moderate: Trafficking, Suicide, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Emotional abuse
boneloose's review
4.5
I personally went into it thinking it'd be much more of a linguistic focus (which... the title IS Cultish, of course it's primarily about cults) and wished there would have been more of a deep dive into linguistic theory as it pertains to cultish language (for example, I would have loved to see a thorough look into how the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis plays into language manipulation rather than just briefly mentioning it), but I'm not going to knock a star off an objectively incredible book because I had intially misunderstood what it was aiming to do.
Highly recommend broadly, but especially to people who think they hate nonfiction, because the writing style makes it much easier to transition into!
Graphic: Death and Suicide
Moderate: Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Trafficking
tender_onion's review
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cultural appropriation, Genocide, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, and Violence