Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

191 reviews

majestictrilobite's review against another edition

While the story had the potential to be really interesting, the narrative style was dry and deadpan and ultimately failed to keep me engaged.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Classism, Child abuse, Cursing, Alcoholism, Addiction, Bullying, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

lindsaybaham's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexual assault

jadenchimes06's review against another edition

emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual violence

laurynsbookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Addiction, Child abuse, Alcoholism, and Emotional abuse

miracanread's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

This book was great (for a memoir, considering that I don't like them)! Not my favorite thing as I don't love reading about abuse/tragic backstories, but it's always interesting to see how people overcome struggles that they were handled as a child, and the difference between family members in that regard. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Alcoholism

aprilconnolly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I've been making more of an effort to read non-fiction in the past year and this was one of the better ones! 
Sometimes my problem with nonfiction is when things get tooooo real. The Glass Castle was an interesting and at times unbelievable life story- but that means it could also be unbelievable sad. The notion that people would raise their kids in this way, or rather not raise them in a lot of instances. The novel begins with a story of Jeannette's earliest memory, catching herself on fire while trying to boil hot dogs to eat. What three year old is using a stove, let alone unsupervised. This is the tip of the iceberg. Against all odds, this story, her story, has a relatively happy ending, but at what cost? 
It was a powerful book, but I'm ready to go back into my fantasy worlds now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Child abuse

Moderate: Pedophilia and Sexual assault

Minor: Domestic abuse and Mental illness

erhmillard's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, and Addiction

carsonichols's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

readbycarina's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Racism, and Homophobia

howilliams's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Written to be at once lyrical, poignant, and direct, Walls has a story worth sharing and a mastery of prose to tell it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Child abuse