Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Educated by Tara Westover

82 reviews

rebah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Torture, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Body shaming, Sexism, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Grief, Gun violence, Cancer, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Genocide, Classism, Cursing, Dementia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, Physical abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

gypdrop's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Wow. Heart breaking. Good read if you’re mentally prepared for an emotional roller coaster. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Body horror

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

scanlona's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Body horror, Gaslighting, Bullying, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

ameliannelise99's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Violence, Religious bigotry, Animal cruelty, Xenophobia, and Body horror

tigerkind's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Both praising and criticizing this  feels wrong, as it contains  fairly detailed accounts of abuse. However, it was extremely well written and constructed, allowing for a reflection on the broader systematic workings of power relations in religion, family and education. Even though a memoir, it was at times written with so much detail and emotion that I had to remind myself I was listening to a non-fiction work and not a novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Unfortunately, it feels like the legal challenges the author apparently faced, which forced her to include disclaimers, paraphrase and use pseudonyms, somewhat hampered the overall impact of the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death, Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Car accident, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, Gaslighting, Body horror, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Child abuse, and Medical content

Moderate: Classism, Slavery, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Minor: Genocide, Islamophobia, Murder, and Police brutality

erisouls's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I don’t have the words to explain how profound an experience reading this book was. All I can do is highly recommend it to everyone I know who reads. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Misogyny, Blood, Car accident, Abandonment, Animal death, and Body horror

aliwhaley's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book is fantastic and tragic and inspiring all at once. It’s hard to believe people like this really exist, and the fact that they do is so harrowing. With or without the Mormonism and end-of-days bent, these stories of manipulation and abuse play out time and again, and it is so difficult to read it from inside the mind of the victim. I am so impressed by Dr. Tara Westover.

As a writer, her ability to convey at once how she felt at the time events unfolded, whilst also conveying the incongruity of those feelings now that she has reflected and grown, but also having compassion for her former self is astonishing. She writes terrifying people, and yet their moments of loveableness are believable. You feel every blow with her.

And, as a human, her strength is just incredible. I wish everybody in a similar situation could read this book and know they’re not in the wrong

All the content warnings - this is not a light read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence and Genocide

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

criticalmiss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

Devastating, fascinating, heartbreaking. This story is one of perseverance and the search for understanding of family and one’s self. 
This is a hard read and could definitely be triggering for some. 
TW: injury, child abuse, abuse, mental illness, guns, animal death

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Gun violence, Pregnancy, and Medical trauma

texashippie's review against another edition

dark inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Racism, Religious bigotry, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Sexism, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Misogyny, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

madelinedalton's review

challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Violence, Medical trauma, Blood, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Mental illness, Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death