Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

155 reviews

jordynkw's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, and Sexual violence

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Lesbophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Violence, Cursing, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Infidelity, and Fatphobia

samantha1960's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

Loved this book so much I regretted borrowing it from the library because I wanted to highlight and dog ear so many pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Sexual violence, and Violence

kell_xavi's review against another edition

3.0

Some sections of this book are witty and brash, concisely metaphoric in ways that tell the reader something important they can hold on to; other sections are slow, pedantic, or they delve into ideas and events that aren’t as revealing as Machado believes. The vignette style makes the writing piecework at times, the dual history of a personal nature and history of lesbian domestic abuse cutting across each other without coming together. The note to Machado’s partner in the acknowledgments, which reads, “I’d do it all again, baby. It brought me you,” was an uncomfortable closure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Biphobia, and Infidelity

oliverreeds's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

klamsc's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

5.0

Machado has such a poetic way of writing prose, which is one of my favorite things about reading her work. This memoir is written like no other I've encountered, and it's easy to understand why: in telling sharing her own experience of domestic abuse, Machado is pushing against cultural notions that women cannot hurt each other, that abuse only comes from men, and if queer women admit their queer women partners have hurt them, then they're damaging the community's reputation. In the Dream House does an excellent job grappling with All Of That and more. I've read many stories that feature abuse (both nonfiction and fiction) and none have so radically changed my perception of it as this book has.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Cursing, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming, Biphobia, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Alcohol, and Homophobia

Minor: Dementia, Death, and Physical abuse

brunonadamas's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Violence, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, and Sexual content

literally_mint's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Biphobia, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Cancer, Abandonment, Vomit, Alcohol, Rape, Dementia, Hate crime, and Fatphobia

melmoony's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

A haunting and terrible tale about domestic abuse. Machado writes about her own experience being in a queer relationship and going through the ups of falling in love and finding who she really is juxtaposed with the downs of being gaslighted and abused. It read like a fever dream, each chapter a disjointed exploration of “the dream house.” I’ve never read a memoir like this and is the only book I’ve read of hers, yet you can tell she is a poet because of the lyrical style of her prose. I cannot say I enjoyed it in a true sense, but I think her writing is lyrical, her voice is unique, and that more discussions about same-sex domestic abuse and across all relationship types should be had.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse