A review by dafyddclover
Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young

emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

This book is so intensely personal and is literally what happened to her, so it's difficult to rate, but I think the quality of the story telling is really inconsistent throughout the book. Despite the efforts to create a through line, it felt like two different books, and ultimately glossed over a lot of what I would have been more interested in about her pist-cult life in favor of relitigating disagreements, telling army stories, and praising the military industrial complex even as she calls it a cult. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, Child death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Islamophobia, Medical content, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, Sexism, Abandonment, and Body shaming