Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Glass Castle FTI by Jeannette Walls

98 reviews

hannahnew's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence

abymatthews's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

erinrebecca922's review against another edition

emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

4.0

A great coming of age memoir of a child who was neglected (technically), but still maintained the love of her family. I am quite intrigued at how she had such vivid memories of early childhood.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Child abuse

elbeth22's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

This was a difficult read. The content is so hard to get through because I felt so deeply for the author. The narrative is told in a way that pulls you and I found myself rooting for the Walls children more than anything.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

aspvisualarts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Had to read this for school during high school and honestly this was the only required reading I ACTUALLY read, it was that good!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Addiction, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Grief, and Domestic abuse

redheadorganist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Gun violence, Incest, Rape, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Racism, Cursing, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

nebraskanwriter's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring fast-paced

5.0

What a powerful audiobook, read by the writer herself. Be prepared for basically every trigger warning in the book to happen in this one as these children lived a very hard life because of their parents. I cannot even fathom, after listening to this book, what that must have been like to grow up in. 

As other reviewers have said, Walls does look at her past with rose-tinted glasses and does not tear down her parents. She tells us what they did, said, didn’t do that they should have done and let’s us the reader feel the anger for her. Which I thought was very tasteful of her, given what all her parents have put her family through.

Definitely one of the most powerful memoirs I’ve ever read. How they were able to save up money, budget at such a young age and be more of a responsible adult then both their parents to make it in New York. The strength of her and her siblings is truly incredible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Excrement, Medical trauma, Racism, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Medical content, Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Grief, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Violence, Terminal illness, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Abandonment

leseine's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

terrific. i love the stories that she chose and the moments that we get a look into. I love stories about families that are imperfect erring on the side of toxic and children that get out. It's not pretty and a lot of it is difficult to hear/read about but it is incredible and it lives up to how popular it is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, and Child abuse

Minor: Death of parent and Mental illness

teawithgriffon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

Best book of this year. so moved. absolutely beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

kathytran821's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Death of parent