Reviews tagging 'Violence'

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

116 reviews

charlottereadsthings's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Sexual harassment

daybreakreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Given the title and the cover, I thought it would be a vindictive recantation of her life with some poor slapstick humor. It was not. It was a beautifully written prose of the author going over her childhood and young adulthood and how heavily she idolized her (now deceased) mother to the intense detriment of her own physical and mental health. Only years after her mother died did she begin to understand that what her mother did was wrong and not her fault, and she began to heal from it. It isn’t until the last page do you see any sort of “moving on” from idolizing the mother. The audiobook is narrated by the author which I liked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, and Vomit

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Cancer, and Death

Minor: Drug abuse, Sexual content, Cursing, Violence, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts

erenreads12's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

4.5

Confronting, vulnerable and incredibly brave. All I can say is thank you Jenette for sharing your story - as important as it is hopefully.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Cancer and Violence

brttbwrs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

it promised hilarious and heartbreaking and only came through on the latter. jennette herself has funny quips, but there are only a handful of stories that could even be described as hopeful. tread with caution if you have experience with an abusive mother.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Child abuse, Grief, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Vomit, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Gaslighting, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Violence, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

arthurb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Nothing about this book was funny to me. Jeanette’s style of writing however is very easily digestible and sarcastic. However I did not laugh once because what she went through was not funny to me. I thought the way she told her story was honest and raw and that made it pleasant to read. When the audiobook ended I started crying because I felt a sense of relief that I think the title of the book tries to convey. I felt relief that she was free from her mother’s influence and that she stated in the last sentence that she would not be returning to her mother’s grave. In my opinion this book should not be marketed as funny and you should be aware of the content warnings. There were times where I had to take a break because it got me down.
Despite all this is a great memoir that I definitely recommend to people who want to learn more about abusive families, child stardom and eating disorders. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Grief, Drug use, Drug abuse, Cancer, Body shaming, Terminal illness, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Violence, Mental illness, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, and Bullying

rozstengle's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Violence, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Stalking

lem0nbalm_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Violence, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Cursing

Minor: Drug use

sop17hie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Body shaming, Vomit, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Alcohol, Child abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Stalking, Bullying, and Terminal illness

tahmida's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.5

beautifully written, absolutely heartbreaking 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Alcohol, Violence, Sexual assault, Fatphobia, Chronic illness, Addiction, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Cancer

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Vomit

Minor: Blood

violetbentbackwards1036's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Terminal illness, Violence, Addiction, Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, and Mental illness