Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

White Magic by Elissa Washuta

22 reviews

viaviaggi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Genocide, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Colonisation, Medical content, Cursing, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Stalking, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

moredoyle's review

challenging reflective medium-paced

5.0

A marvelous, honest, magical journey

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual assault

betsygrace's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

5.0

Very interesting chapter on Oregon Trail from an Indigenous perspective. I appreciate her thoughts on the term “white passing” and the cognitive dissonance this brings for many indigenous folks. 

I also had some small revelations about why silence in relationships can be triggering for me (because the author is an abusive relationship and her experience sounds somewhat similar to my previous relationship). 

The author also writes beautiful prose about her trauma, mental illness, colonization, and more. Her transparency is something beautiful. 

I also think this was more of a 4ish for me because I didn’t love the darkness the book brought for me personally— BUT. I can still appreciate a good piece of literature when I see one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking

lancakes's review against another edition

challenging reflective

4.0

Incredibly well crafted as a whole, but some parts weren't as strong for me personally (specifically the Red Dead Redemption conclusion, and some of the other cultural references. It was also really hard for me to read because of all the trauma. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Colonisation

Minor: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

jbraith's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

mtownreads's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Mental illness, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexual assault

pdestrienne's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

4.0

Unlike many essay collections, which are just collections of published essays with no guiding theme other than "these are things I think about", this collection has a very strong thematic throughline. This is also what makes it tough to read in large chunks (at least for me) - because it's about the looping of abusive relationships and situations and how hard it is to break free from it. So: a very successful book, beautifully written, hurt my heart and brain. I was truly impressed with the longest piece in the collection that shows time as meaningless. I've never read anything like it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Violence, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Sexual violence

corvicore's review against another edition

I have had nightmares three days in a row after reading this book so for my own sake I'm not finishing it. It's very well written and I'd like to finish it someday, but due to the heavy subjects I don't think I can continue reading this book right now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Rape, and Mental illness

Minor: Child abuse, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Genocide, and Sexual assault

marissagallerani's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Alcoholism