Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

719 reviews

geminisoul's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Mental illness, Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Chronic illness, Vomit, Gaslighting, Addiction, and Alcoholism

all_things_books21's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

This was my first time listening to an audiobook, and not going to lie, I think I liked it more because Jennette did the audio for it. You felt the emotion coming from the author more than if it would have been someone random doing the audio. 

I’ll admit, Jennette McCurdy was never an actual that I followed, but I knew who she was from her roll as Sam in iCarly. When I heard that she wrote a book, I was intrigued, but had no clue what to expect. 

After listening to her book, my heart breaks for her. I never could have imagined the trauma and abuse that she experienced almost all of her life. While no one can change what happened to her, I hope that she can continue to grow and heal. 

This definitely isn’t like the normal books that I read and review, but I do hope that my reviewing this book, it helps getting and giving Jennette the love and support that she needs and deserves. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

nick_3's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Child abuse, Body shaming, Addiction, Chronic illness, and Vomit

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Blood

rchulin1's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Grief, Medical content, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Drug abuse, Vomit, Cancer, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship

yulia's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Definitely recommend to listen to an audiobook in author's voice. The writing style is very frank and straightforward.
Describes a lot of abuse from child's perspective, so checking content warnings might be a good idea.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Chronic illness, Child abuse, and Mental illness

asbookreviewsforfun_alicia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcoholism, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Vomit

ekuang96's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Grief, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Vomit, Gaslighting, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

reajc's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Vomit, Eating disorder, Alcohol, Cancer, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Addiction, Body shaming, Self harm, Mental illness, and Death

music_girl84's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Cursing, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Child abuse, Drug use, Alcoholism, Excrement, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Bullying, Cancer, and Gaslighting

silkfox's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

5.0

Beautifully written. Difficult to read. Heartbreaking, but I'm glad I read it. Especially listening to the audiobook, I was almost sad it ended, just because I wanted to "talk" to Jeannette more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Grief, Cancer, and Addiction