Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

25 reviews

booksbri's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Abortion

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexism, Torture, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

pikkumarja's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

On vaikeaa antaa arvosanaa toisen elämästä kertovalla kirjalle, mutta yritin silti. Kirja olisi ehkä kaivannut vähän enemmän toimittamista ja ehkä suomennos tuntui hieman naiivilta.

Mun sydän on todella murskana sen takia, mitä Britney on joutunut kärsimään. Tämä on aito, rehellinen ja todella itsekriittinen selostus tapahtumien kulusta.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

_ren's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.5

I have read some of the reviews, and understand that people who usually read memoirs have their educated opinions about Britney's memoir feeling like a girl's dairy or just generally unpolished. I, as someone who does not often read memoirs, thought that the writing style had some pros and some cons. The pros being the casual conversation feel of the whole book that made me feel that this was truly Britney speaking to us (some say her social medias are still highly controlled, I personally do not believe that), and the cons being the numerous jumps and time skips that were not warned about or acknowledged while I was reading. The time-skips were quite an annoyance at times because as someone who has kept up with the Free Britney Movement since summer of 2022, I felt that some details we uncovered that were crucial to the movement were not mentioned from Britney's perspective. I would have loved to seen more of Britney's version/feelings toward specific things we had uncovered about her case. In the end, this is definitely her way of saying FU to everyone who had wronged her through books, interviews, and documentaries. I am proud of her for just that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

add_a_little_spook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Miscarriage, and Abortion

sweetmusic22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

GOOD FOR HER!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

If you're not in the right head space, don't read this!

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

This five star rating is a huge surprise to me. I didn’t know anything much about her aside from the tabloid headlines (never listened to her music). Really glad I read this book. She’s overcome a lot. I probably would’ve crumbled. Made me proud of her and also inspired me to be clearer about my priorities and boundaries. I hope the world will leave her alone and let her be, and I hope her parents, sister, and Kevin all experience very painful and elongated suffering.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rachdunder's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Abortion

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Pregnancy

cerysl's review against another edition

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Biphobia, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Transphobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

aleilvandrea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicide, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic

333amreen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

VERY EXPRESSIVE‼️ Resonated with what she had to say, more or less & intersting insights into her life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Stalking, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic