Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson

26 reviews

fanchera's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, and Abandonment

Minor: Dementia and Alcoholism

milliebot_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Henderson dives into her childhood and upbringing with wit and sincerity; it felt like a friend was telling me stories. The first 40% or so is more lighthearted (though not without negative experiences, of course), but then Henderson really gets into some serious topics (see content warnings). It's really heartbreaking, what some kids have gone through and survived. It seems like Henderson put in a lot of work to move past some of the events in her childhood and I commend her for opening up to readers the way she did. 

This book was funny, depressing, frustrating, and encouraging. I always find it hard to "rate" someone's life experiences, but if you like memoirs definitely read this. The very end is sweet, especially the family acknowledgements.

(Also, it's always astounding to me how much of people's lives they can remember! I don't imagine I'll ever have a reason to write a memoir, but I can hardly remember events from a couple years ago, let alone a semi-complete view of my early childhood or teen years. Bravo to everyone who does it!)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Grief, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

rita_reads_cda's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

Audiobook — sucks you in quickly. Delightful. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

cjamison0151's review

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Self harm

Moderate: Sexual assault, Addiction, and Abandonment

smalika's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Racism, Animal death, Dementia, and Racial slurs

dodgersas's review against another edition

reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

atiek's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

5.0

God, I loved this memoir. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Abandonment, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, and Dementia

Moderate: Grief

femiamarisa's review

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Self harm

themlin666's review

emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Danielle recounts her childhood in this incredibly captivating novel. She takes us through her upbringing and runs through so many emotions and stories of her life. I really, really loved this book, despite the difficult and sad parts. I don’t really feel like my review will do it much justice so I’ll leave it at this: please read it. You’ll love it. 

TW:

(Unless you cannot/don’t want to read anything about molestation. Then you may want to skip this one.)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Rape

e_fensterle's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Abandonment

Moderate: Dementia, Vomit, Violence, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism