Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

97 reviews

marisa_kingsley77's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Mental illness and Physical abuse

vivel's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

camilleion's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Lesbophobia

30something_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Fucking wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

kayaisreading's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Drug use

Moderate: Vomit, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Minor: Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, and Body shaming

lucy_c_reads's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Mental illness

lorenag5's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

angievansprang's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Wow. This book was written in such a unique short-snippet style that I have not seen before in a memoir. Machado is a masterful wordsmith, even when telling a devastating tale. Parts of this book resonated with me a lot, I think I will need to sit with it more before making a truly complete review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Mental illness, Car accident, Alcohol, and Fire/Fire injury

amyelliot's review

dark emotional funny medium-paced

4.75

This book is reflective, heartbreaking, and informative. It taught me about queer history and the relationships and disfunctions that shaped our community today. It also tells the personal story of a queer woman dealing with domestic abuse and her mental state in a fragmented and fascinating way. I read it in days. I recommend this to all gay women! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Addiction, Homophobia, Mental illness, Drug use, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

talking_heads's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse