Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Third Person by Emma Grove

18 reviews

frozenduck's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Grief, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

gmalmquist's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Transphobia

fish17's review

emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

3.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcoholism and Alcohol

taylizart's review

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

3.0

A weird story that I didn’t really enjoy reading but forced myself to read anyway because I could empathize with the interesting main character and wanted to find out if things ended well for her. Thankfully it seemed to be a relatively happy ending. The book is for fans of really raw and meaningful storytelling - a memoir that’s more like a deep diary entry than an actual story.

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

queersubtext's review

dark funny hopeful informative sad fast-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Transphobia

polychromatic_hedgehog_parable's review

challenging funny sad tense fast-paced

really good! incredible art! the page count caught be by surprise but I read it in one day, like Maia Kobabe claimed on the back of the book lol ^^;

language used by therapist and eventually by main character: alter, core self

I was really sad that the main character ended up capitulating a bit to the therapist's wrong idea of her! he was on this fucking quest to find the "core self" and make sure that person would be ok with transitioning/figuring out whether that person was "truly a woman" absolute bullshit. I just had this palpable sense that everyone in their system was working well together and trying to work towards self-improvement, and the therapist was blocking them at every turn lmao. TTuTT

actually now that I think about it, I'd be curious to know whether everyone has the same reaction to reading this book (i.e. this therapist is emotionally abusive _and_ is employing harmful and outdated ideas about DID). ...The idea of someone empathizing with the therapist is deeply concerning to me lmao. pls read this maybe https://www.them.us/story/emma-grove-third-person-graphic-memoir-q-and-a

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Homophobia, and Violence

Minor: Outing

medical malpractice / abuse by therapist

enbybooklove's review

challenging emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

jainabee's review

emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

5.0

It was impossible for me to put this book down, even though it was very uncomfortable to read. Emma manages to convey nuanced emotions and the wordless experience of dissociation into the lines of her drawings. Maybe it's her animation background that adds to the fast-paced feeling of a flip book?

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Bullying, Misogyny, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Forced institutionalization