Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters

7 reviews

marroe's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Drug abuse and Violence

karynpnelson's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Drug use

heatherms's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

keishlavz's review

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Alcohol

lindseyas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

A beautiful memoir of the story of a boy-then-man who is stuck in the cycle of society's failure to care for him. Masters, growing up in an abusive household, left to the foster care system and surrounded by people who failed to look out for him, represents the plague of our modern criminal justice system. We fail to care for those who need it most, allowing them to fall victim to poverty, crime, drugs and the prison system. An extremely emotionally intelligent man, Masters was wronged by the system that was meant to protect him all of those years, but he remains hopeful, turning to faith to keep him going. This was gorgeously written, reading like an epic of a man growing up, learning from his mistakes and trying to do better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

corriejn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Classism

greedy_dahlia's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Vomit