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durrareadsstuff's review against another edition
5.0
I'm pretty sure this is the first memoir I ever read, so I genuinely have no idea how to write a review on it. The experience was definitely a shock to me, because the thing about fiction is, no matter how awful it gets—at least in the books I'm used to reading—you can always count on the happy ending. There's always a resolution. So like, even though you feel bad for the character, you know they're gonna turn out fine, or if they don't, it's fictional, nobody's hurt. As you can guess, a bunch of bad stuff happens in this book, and as I got to the end, I was hopeful, you know. Things are gonna work out. But nope, it didn't. Well, not in the way I thought it was going to, anyway. And like I literally could not believe it. Some of the things that happened in here, I had to read twice because I was like, hang on, that didn't just happen right? So yeah, my brain was definitely buffering. Okay so that's less of a review than it is actually my take on reading a memoir for the first time.
Aaanywaaaayyyy, this was really really good. The writing itself, was đź’«immaculateđź’«. Even if there were parts where not a lot was happening, you would stay because of the writing. It is THAT good. Which, when you think about it, all this came from someone who couldn't even spell much at 16. Aaand that made me stare at a ceiling for the better half of an hour last night.
This book explores the education system, how mental illnesses affect the people around you and how bad it is if it goes undiagnosed. It's also about familial relationship and self-invention, how do you construct yourself, basically from scratch and remove what you've known all your life because now you found out how untrue and harmful it actually is.
Graphic: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Animal death, Sexism, Racial slurs, Miscarriage, Mass/school shootings, and Gun violence
mme_carton's review against another edition
1.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Ableism, Bullying, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual assault, and Violence
Minor: Genocide and Dementia