Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

235 reviews

abbeybelchior's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Gaslighting

Minor: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

peppermintstrawberries's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

halcyonkathryn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Infidelity and Vomit

Minor: Body shaming

ameerah_algohary's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

helenab18's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

cosmaheart's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

The composition of this memoir and Machado’s writing is unmatched. She finds a way to intertwine so many seemingly unrelated things into her story  and make them all connected.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault

jmcordero's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Drug use, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Self harm, and Abandonment

Minor: Medical content, Lesbophobia, and Outing

starglitters's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug use, Infidelity, and Gaslighting

Minor: Biphobia, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Lesbophobia

maihindawi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Shining a light into darkest corners of queer history and the politics, literature and media that conspire to keep those stories stricken from the public record, Carmen Maria Machado tells her own story of survival from an abusive lesbian relationship during her mid-20s. 

The short and oscillating chapters of, at times: personal memoir, at others: speculative fiction, film history, and queer theory, each add an essential angle from which to view the complex web of trauma that defined Machado's relationship with the unnamed "woman in the Dream House". Machado's memories are all recounted in second-person (addressed to, and recounted by, "you") which makes the narrative voice powerfully intimate and the plunge into toxicity all the more difficult and horrifying to stomach, as you imagine yourself in all of these contexts, or - more often than not - utterly displaced without any context at all...

It's rare that a book grips me to the point I literally cannot put it down and I must devour it in its entirety on a single day. This book did just that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual assault

corvidprince's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad tense

5.0

I wasn't in an abusive relationship--not one like this anyways, and yet so much of it hits home about my parents and my childhood into my ongoing adulthood. she captures the same feelings I had, still have, in a way I could never put words to. 

this book is bone chilling and real. it's one of the few books that have ever brought me to tears.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Religious bigotry