Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

92 reviews

rachelfayreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Bullying, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Sexual violence

dexlud's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

In The Dream House is a beautiful memoir by Carmen Maria Machado. The writing style is beautifully poetic and the vocabulary that Machado uses is absolutely stunning. I will say that this is easily read in mass chunks, and I ended up taking a break from this book because the vocab was just a lot. It’s incredibly complex and at times hard to understand. Overall, a very good book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Bullying, Sexism, Suicide, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Gaslighting, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death and Vomit

amberleigh838's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Bullying, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

waterbear0821's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

This memoir is about lesbian intimate partner abuse. It’s well-written and even if you have not experienced intimate partner abuse and you can’t relate to the author (not all of us are professional writers and academics), you may relate to the stress and grief and confusion the author describes. I found the dream house to be an effective if slightly annoying device for carrying the story. The history of lesbian intimate partner abuse, and domestic violence generally, was very interesting, sad, and important. It was a compelling refrain that abuse in a queer relationships has unique challenges because it doesn’t easily fit our cultural narrative- both because it’s less relatable and therefore less believable and because it carries the special shame of failing to be a model minority. This was captivating and terrible to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Homophobia

scifi_rat's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Homophobia

Minor: Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Biphobia, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cursing, Grief, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, and Torture

yrpalal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Bullying, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Infidelity

aquakirst's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Lesbophobia, Bullying, Mental illness, Murder, Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

jujuwithbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

taylorgraves555's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Bullying, and Emotional abuse

hbeawill's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Bullying, and Domestic abuse