Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

6 reviews

asurasantosha's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment and Infidelity

Minor: Alcohol, Abortion, Addiction, Drug use, Medical content, and Sexual assault

readingrainbowroad's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

Book: 3.5 stars. This book is at its heart one about immense grief and how people process it differently. I've heard this book compared to Eat, Pray, Love (which I've never read but heard the criticisms of) and I think if you view this book as another travel memoir, it misses a lot of the main heart of the story and what Cheryl Strayed was going through at the time. I think having gone through a very similar thing (mom dying suddenly of cancer) made this book incredibly more relatable and understandable.

Audiobook narrator: 5 stars. Would listen to Bernadette Dunne read 100 more books in a heartbeat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Medical content, Animal death, Grief, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual content, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Abortion, and Alcohol

skeptic_hecate's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Cherly made one mistake after another, very idiotic and avoidable mistakes, but she is such a charming narrator, I couldn't help but feel for her. I couldn't help but to relate. This book hits very hard, right at the feels. I felt the author's insecurities, the author's fear and shame. 
The journey is told in such great detail I couldn't help but to feel there, it only made my want to go there. Although, better prepared. This is not a guide on what to do, this is a guide on what not to do, but also the deep and naked feelings of a woman in turmoil. I felt her anguish, but also her relentless optimism, I felt her ups and downs and her sorrows and laughs. 
Reading this book felt almost as cathartic as Cheryl's journey, and it only inspired me to treck the PCT one day, hopefully soon. I highly recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Cancer

Minor: Sexual assault

canadabooks's review

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Abortion, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

emily_bellendir's review

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Sexual assault

hillarydanielle's review

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

Largely centered on the author/protagonist’s journey dealing with grief.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Grief, Sexual assault, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Infidelity and Violence