Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

56 reviews

torturedreadersdept's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Cursing, Dysphoria, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Sexual content, Body horror, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Violence, Bullying, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Dementia, Pregnancy, Racism, and Gun violence

toyin_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

It can be tricky for a survivor to read another survivor's experience, laid out like this, and not feel in some sense that it is too much, or too similar. Dream house as choose your adventure is my favourite section of the book, it feels like a closed loop and it is confrontational. When you try to stop the abuse, there's an aside between reader and author that is challenging, the idea you think you can when you can't. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

breazatoth's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Alcoholism

bchantele15's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Domestic abuse

sapphothebittersweet's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

By far one of the best memoirs I have ever read. Considering I just finished the book, it will take me a while to be able to formulate an actual review and process everything that I just read, but right now I am speechless. Please read this book if you haven't already especially if you yourself have experienced domestic violence within a same-sex relationship and wish to feel seen and heard. This book does a phenomenal job explaining the nuance between lesbophobia, homophobia, and the very real reality that anyone of any gender or sexuality can be abused or be abusive to others. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Cursing, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

squidknees's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Fatphobia, Drug abuse, Body shaming, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Alcoholism, Self harm, Bullying, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Cursing, and Blood

readersreadingnook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual content, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Drug use, and Gaslighting

Minor: Vomit

whensaintsspeak's review against another edition

medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism

veeples's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

The beautiful, dreamy prode Machado employs is a brilliant and sharp contrast to the devastation that she experiences. It reads like poetry, though it’s not. It’s fluid and heartbreaking and gorgeous, and I am so glad to have read it. If you are a queer person, and even if you’re not, I think it’s a valuable read as a narrative that describes a mentally and emotionally abusive relationship and how its just as harmful as a physically abusive one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Biphobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

Minor: Blood, Dementia, Car accident, and Body shaming

sarahcerdena's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts