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Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile

6 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

livimack's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

There is absolutely no review I can leave that will do this book justice. There’s a lot of heart and a lot of truth. All I can say is, definitely get the audiobook version, because that way you get to actually experience the feeling and the meaning behind every word and every lyric. As much as this book is about a life of trials, hopes, personal developments, family and what it means to be a woman or be gay or be a musician or even a lover of country, it’s actually really so much more simple than that. All this book is, is the most heartfelt, rational and unifying discussion of the three things that should matter to this world most: love, forgiveness and faith. And of course, like Brandi says, those words don’t necessarily have the meaning that so many people think they do. 
I just think it’s brilliant that someone can become your hero by telling you and showing you that they are no hero. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Drug use, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Lesbophobia, Death of parent, Sexism, Alcoholism, Death, Deportation, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

Broken Horses is a candid and honest window in to Brandi Carlile's upbring, inspirations, opinions, and musical journey. It is intimate and personal and frank, and that makes it such an enjoyable book. It feels like a conversation.

I have to highly recommend audiobook, which contains exclusive covers and acoustic versions of some of Carlile's most popular songs at the end of every chapter. Also, at the end, there is a nearly two hour section of the music within back-to-back. This alone makes it superior to the other versions.

My gripes with this book ar very minor - it sometimes feels disjointed, especially at chapter breaks, but Carlile herself admits she isn't a writer. All in all, it's a decent memoir.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Medical content, Drug abuse, Drug use, Classism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Animal death, Lesbophobia, and Death

Minor: Racism, Police brutality, Pandemic/Epidemic, Islamophobia, and Xenophobia

-Graphic descriptions of a child with a life-threatening illness.

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

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

spaghettireads's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy