Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

284 reviews

lilylovestoread's review against another edition

informative reflective sad tense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Lesbophobia

coralcrab77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

iwishihadmoretimetoread's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Homophobia, Drug use, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Body shaming, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Cursing, Lesbophobia, Vomit, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Dementia and Drug abuse

buffee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and Physical abuse

jschro12's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

 In the Dream House is a memoir by Carmen Maria Machado told through dozens and dozens of lenses, and Machado expertly flips them down, one after the other, layering them on top of each other in a way so as to see each of their facets both individually and in combination. Domestic abuse in queer relationships suffers from a respectability politic that renders a topic that already is hidden and shied away from even more invisible. She adds this memoir and these stories of her relationship with her abusive ex to the archive: “I speak into the silence. I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice, measure the emptiness by its small sound.”  Machado lyrically and poetically guides us through from the early days to the end of their relationship, while also drawing from experiences across her life and from sources across the spectrum about queer domestic abuse. Within In the Dream House, she is both imagining languages and structures within which to understand her experiences, while simultaneously critiquing and navigating the building of those forms. The resulting work is both stunningly beautiful and oozingly horrifying, especially (as Machado notes) in the mundanity of the story contained within its pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse

ieotter13's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

a pretty intense, yet powerful memoir on queer domestic violence. a must read for anyone trying to understand the intersection of identity in domestic violence cases

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Homophobia

chicken_steadicam's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

phdyke's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Fatphobia and Physical abuse

pinkbunnyy's review against another edition

emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

ashleyreadsmore's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

A heavier read but definitely one of the better books Ive read in a while. It’s definitely a book you can read and go back to later, read it again and glean new information or feel out something you didn’t the first time around. The topic is well researched, at least to the best of the authors ability. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse