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inthemoonlight's review against another edition
5.0
My only warning would be to look at any trigger warnings if that's something that would impact you. I personally went in blind, not even knowing what it was about, and did not realize how dark things would be. Vital to talk about, but still potentially triggering nonetheless.
Graphic: Ableism, Genocide, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Child death, Death, Physical abuse, and Rape
whatannikareads's review against another edition
2.75
i’m a mixed bag of emotions about this book. after about halfway through i think the first half of the book was completely unnecessary/a different book altogether. i fell asleep quite a few times during the first half. the second half was much more interesting, but i kept getting whiplash on the organization of it; we kept switching from history to memoir to social science. i don’t feel the memoir section was expanded enough to be super engaging. the connection between the writer and david star jordan, aside from her research of him, felt like a reach. i think if she has developed her story more, or just made it a completely separate book, it could’ve been more enjoyable. the whole book could’ve just been 3 different articles tbh. it felt like reading a really long op-ed and i don’t think ot should’ve been a book tbh.
also again, i don’t know if talking about how shitty his beliefs were in the second half made up for how nicely he was portrayed in the first half?? it was just very clearly not written by a person of color lol.
Moderate: Ableism, Death, Racism, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
pipn_t's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Ableism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Racism
jes312's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Murder
Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Infidelity
beanqueen_'s review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Classism
krabinovitz's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Ableism
cinnamonroll42's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Ableism, Racism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Forced institutionalization
marchcrow's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Child death, and Forced institutionalization
egperisho's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Ableism and Racism
madelineahjones's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt