Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming

17 reviews

skyturtles's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Gun violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: War

elg1105's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Eating disorder, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Grief

maya_moksha's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Alan Cumming’s story is powerful, intriguing, and well formatted. 

However, it was hard to tackle in detail,  many of the topics disclosed in the content warnings 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

maddy4prezident's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

This book was a profound recollection of childhood trauma, and an inspiring story of how Alan Cumming and his family grew past—and healed from—the abuse experienced at the hands of his father. Alan Cumming shares his family's story with a very emotionally intelligent and trauma-informed perspective, and he shows the reverberations of childhood abuse into adulthood. The parallels that he draws between his life and his grandfather's life are also exceptional, and his "present day" storyline offers the perfect framework with which to share his past. Overall, I would absolutely recommend this book to others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

mollymdull's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Cancer, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, and Car accident

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

tyromancy's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Violence

itsgnat's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Abandonment

vera_cologne's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

Really interesting and well-told memoir. The topic of abuse is hard to stomach sometimes, but it’s amazing how Alan Cumming puts it into a perspective to him personally and society at large. Also it is so nice to listen to his voice for hours. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

courto875's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Cancer and War

theqwerty's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Gaslighting