Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough

3 reviews

nerdy_yinzer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Confinement, Hate crime, and Child abuse

Moderate: Outing, Abortion, and Blood

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

avisreadsandreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abortion, Child abuse, Police brutality, and Sexual assault

quassibly's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

5.0

Lauren Hough and I share almost nothing in background or experience, but her circular thought process with it's frequent digressions that seem unrelated until she brings it all back around to connect in a way that feels entirely organic.

Separately, her essays each impart in insight into the world at large, seen through the lens of Hough's experiences -- being told that she can only be good if she conforms to a standard, being hurt by people who tell her it's for her own good, and finding herself powerless in a world where poverty is the ultimate shame.  Taken together, they tell the story of a woman who fighting to figure out how to create her own standards with only her anger and her wit to arm her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence