Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

156 reviews

claudial666's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Sexual assault

airwrecka1's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.25

finished in a day! telling, capturing, and heartbreaking, this book covers the real mind f*ck of an abusive lesbian relationship. machado weaves together archival knowledge with personal account, providing a deep-cutting, thought-provoking narrative on queer abuse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

missinfermiera's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

scorpioness's review against another edition

fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Sexual content

greenleafclarke's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Stalking, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Outing

rebeccakoury's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

If I could give this more than 5 stars, I would. This memori was captivating, painful, and vulnerable. Multiple times while reading I found myself experiencing the emotions viscerally. This will be a memoir i think about for a very long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Biphobia, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Rape

spuriousdiphthongs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

sadiaa's review against another edition

3.5

The book was Machado's experience of abuse in a lesbian relationship alternating with mini essays and tangents which I skipped. I was more interested in reading about her relationship.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

dreadfulreader's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

I did not expect this to be as fast of a read as it was, but I was totally enthralled by this book.  Maybe that's because the chapters are so bite-sized, but a lot of it is Machado's insightful and lovely writing. 

I'm always impressed by how someone can take their experiences and order them in a way that becomes a compelling narrative, understanding when information should be revealed, when to go backwards and forwards in time, and when to zoom out from a larger historical topic, and then zoom back in to a painful personal moment.  There was even a moment in this book where I gasped at what felt like a twist.! 

Can't recommend this highly enough, and now I'm excited to check out her fiction work!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Mental illness

lormurenzi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism