Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

157 reviews

mjtal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism and Sexual violence

aproudmc13's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Biphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Cursing, Fatphobia, Racism, Classism, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Vomit, Grief, Outing, Rape, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Misogyny, and Drug use

painausten314's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

“We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity.”

This memoir examines and exposes domestic abuse in lesbian relationships and queer relationships overall. The writing made me feel all the right things at the right moments, and left me feeling her relief as she brought her story to its close. It is weird to say that someone can write about something as ugly as abuse in a beautiful way, but Machado does.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

carlwheezer's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

emilymbrown's review against another edition

dark emotional informative fast-paced

stop rating memoirs you weirdos!! 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual violence, Fatphobia, Lesbophobia, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

rieviolet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

This book deals with an extremely important topic that needs to be voiced and discussed. That said, as a piece of work itself, I liked it so-so. 

I did not get along with the narrative structure, I found the rapid-fire succession of chapters (supposed to show different genres and narrative styles) too much disjointed and confusing. The writing style is a bit too much experimental for me.

I liked much more the chapters that were "essay-like", exploring queer history and theory. However, I think that this mixing of informative chapters together with more literary and elaborately written ones was a bit jarring, it felt like two different books mashed up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Lesbophobia, Body horror, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Abandonment, Mental illness, Sexism, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Gun violence, Medical content, Drug abuse, Torture, Cursing, Car accident, Biphobia, Sexual assault, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Racism, Bullying, Transphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Religious bigotry, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Suicide, and Dementia

fesd5's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

4.5

Erratic, disconnected, reflective, academic, this memoir is everything a biography usually isn't. Although there is some form of chronology, the book jumps eagerly all over the place, littered with different writing styles from narrative to biographical to academic. This is something to read when what you want to read is different. An intriguing insight into the author's experience with psychological abuse in a lesbian relationship and unput-downable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual violence

taylor24's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

Minor: Alcoholism

ninaszewczyk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Alcohol and Homophobia

florecita_lectora's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Lesbophobia