Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Third Person by Emma Grove

38 reviews

kirsti123's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Heartbreaking. Toby made me so angry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Physical abuse

Abuse from health care provider

kbweis's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

alexisgarcia's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

i read this is one sitting, which i wouldn’t recommend because this is a really heavy read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Dysphoria

cassius_orion's review

informative mysterious fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

kenrya's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

ajaggers324's review

challenging informative mysterious fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Addiction

tangleroot_eli's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

A young trans woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder heals a lot of her childhood trauma basically in spite of her therapist, who’s pretty much the worst. Seriously, all new therapists should have to read this book as a handbook for how NOT to therapist.

The art style is simple and highly effective. The repetitive conversations, which might otherwise bug me, here feel necessary to emphasize how much bs Grove’s therapist put her through, and how often. I rooted for Grove the whole way through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Transphobia, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Gaslighting

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Toxic masculinity

pillravi's review

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Transphobia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

aetherkids's review

challenging dark emotional informative tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content and Alcohol

abbie_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

A beast of a graphic memoir that I’m very glad I read on my iPad - carpal tunnel just thinking about holding a 920-page graphic novel. This is an autobiographical work, depicting Emma’s struggles to transition after being diagnosed with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). It’s intense, and often frustrating, as Emma has the misfortune of having possibly the least empathetic therapist in the world. Toby was awful and I hope he is no longer practising. Their circling and aggressive (on Toby’s part) conversations were unpleasant to read, so imagine how Emma must have felt experiencing that, if it feels exhausting as an outside reader. 

I liked the way Grove depicted her alters - it was easy to see from facial expressions and posture who was fronting at the time. The art is fairly simple, black and white, and I read that Emma didn’t write in order - she just sat down to sketch what she remembered, then pieced it together. This is definitely visible in the choppy, pell-mell style, and I think works well depicting the turmoil Emma was experiencing at the time. 

Beyond heartened that Emma found a therapist who took the time to understand her better and who was versed in DID. Wish her nothing but the best and all the healing for the trauma she endured as a child. 

Read for TSG Genre Challenge 2023: Read a book with more pages than 2022’s longest book & Queer Your Year 2023: Over 500 pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Transphobia, and Medical trauma