Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

The Witch Doesn't Burn In This One by Amanda Lovelace

5 reviews

lizacorn's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Rape

Moderate: Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Self harm

lnware2's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, Self harm, Domestic abuse, Death, Physical abuse, and Eating disorder

macysmith's review against another edition

inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, and Sexism

madisynne_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Mental illness, Grief, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Cursing, Child abuse, and Bullying

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stwriter92's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

2.0

Having read Amanda Lovelace’s collection “The Princess Saves Herself In This One,” I have to say that this kind of followed the same thread. 

I want to preface this with the proclamation that I am a staunch feminist. I do believe that we live in an unequal society. This is something that needs to be fixed. However, I am also equally against the misandry that is sprinkled through this collection. 

First of all, the entire thing reads like a collection of tweets that had been saved as drafts to collect dust until they were brushed off and slapped into this collection. It felt very Diet Riot Grl-esque. It reminded me of my own cringe-worthy poetry that I used to write back in high school (I will never show anyone that ever ever ever).  

There were a few good ones, I’ll grant that, but the entire thing felt a little too pandering to me. She has a theme of taking the definition of “woman” back from the patriarchy, which is something I can get behind. She also has a theme of taking back the power of feminine anger at a world that was created to keep us downtrodden. These are themes that I can get behind, but the execution feels like it was surface-level observation dressed up to look deeper than it actually was.  

One thing I will give her, however, is this idea of being reborn from the ashes. I do think that the phoenix-imagery is very inspiring. I just wish that the execution of this collection had been done better.  

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Self harm, Misogyny, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, and Body shaming