Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

25 reviews

mpeach's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, and Alcohol

maritareads's review

I felt like I had to finish it rather than wanting to finish it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcoholism and Lesbophobia

Minor: Cancer

weirdow's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

Very rough, but also easy to read. Beautiful writing with a large range of themes touched on. Really liked the use of footnotes and choose your own section.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Alcohol

Minor: Drug abuse and Physical abuse

mamareadstuff's review

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

I would give Carla six stars for this book if I could. Ten? I listened to her read her story on hoopla, but I'm going to have to buy a physical copy so I can go back and underline and cry all over the pages. There were moments so vivid I had flashbacks to my own experience 15+ years ago, so similar, in too many ways to count. This wasn't some afterschool special. This was falling in love and out of love and feeling powerless and somehow, eventually, slowly, finding your power again, trusting yourself again, loving yourself, for once. I don't know that I could have read this book 15 years ago, but I wish that I had been able to read it before... Or maybe I wish that I had been able to reach across state lines back then, and find her, and that we could have shared our stories and gotten each other out sooner. Or maybe not. Maybe we couldn't get out until we could, until we did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Gaslighting

lpogo16's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Machado had a lot of courage in talking about her story and a lot of heart in telling the story of other queer women. This book really opened my eyes to a topic I never thought to look at head on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Blood, Vomit, and Dementia

The vibe of this book is really sad. The energy is very depressing though it does take a hopefully turn at the end.

readbycarina's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Lesbophobia

megnut's review

dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug abuse and Lesbophobia

katiefreeman209's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Drug abuse and Alcohol

cindyjoy's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Physical abuse

alicia_ann_reads's review

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I don't typically rate memoirs, but this one was just so good. 

Partly because I could see my own trauma all throughout and it was written in the second person which made it incredibly cathartic; but also because the author interspersed her memoir with information, other stories and events that paralleled or highlighted her, and others experiences and was written in an almost poetic manner.

Just such a phenomenal book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug abuse and Alcohol