Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile

12 reviews

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Hate crime, Addiction, Religious bigotry, Alcoholism, Rape, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Deportation, Grief, Racism, Lesbophobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death and Suicide

burdasnest's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

Definitely go the audiobook route for the musical extras and just to hear Brandi read in her own voice. I can’t say I agree with her entire personal philosophy, but she is undoubtedly someone who draws you in and makes you feel warm and welcome. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Pandemic/Epidemic, Addiction, Misogyny, Classism, Suicide, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Drug use

lava_crown's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Mental illness, and Drug use

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Minor: Animal death, War, Rape, Murder, and Drug abuse

albon's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Homophobia, and Death

Minor: Animal death, Car accident, and Infidelity

anu_wil's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I read the physical copy of this memoir when it came out but wanted to listen to it for Brandi’s voice and songs. It was everything I wanted, she’s a great storyteller and the song recordings of her alone with a guitar or piano were stunning. Definitely recommend experiencing this book in both formats!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Homophobia

Moderate: Alcoholism and Addiction

uranaishi's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, Drug abuse, and Homophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Grief, Hate crime, Death of parent, Death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Dysphoria, Sexism, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Rape, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer, Adult/minor relationship, Dementia, and War

amykuc's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

I listen to country music, but I'm not good at remembering singers and song writers. I went into this book not knowing very much about the author. It was a really interesting read. She was very honest about her childhood, the evolution of her sexuality, and her dealings with addiction. In between chapters she would often sing-some songs that she had written others that were written by others that had meaning to her. I'm not sure if you would enjoy the audio without some enjoyment of country music but the story by itself was very interesting!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Addiction, Animal death, and Alcoholism

abominablesnowaro's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Suicide, Bullying, Grief, and Medical content

mariakureads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Do yourself a favor and listen to the audio version of this because I was so surprised that Brandi sings at the ending of the chapters plus that there's an additional chapter of her singing a few songs acoustically that were just fantastic to listen to!

I knew a bit of Brandi from what I've heard her mention but none of that could have prepared me for her honesty and heart-warming truth as she narrates her "memoir-ish" book as she puts it. She gave a lot of truths of herself, her life, her family, both born into and found, and her music that I'm much more in love with her as a person than I am of her music.

There is a lot of self-reflection about herself and the music and I could her her smile at certain moments in some chapters especially as she mentions her friendships, famous and familial, that just made me smile too. She has such a great warmth in her tone that I was easily pulled in to listen to and I can fangirl about this for a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Mental illness

Minor: Homophobia

kkreads's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicide, and Addiction