Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Una educación by Tara Westover

78 reviews

rebah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

my_weird_bookish_heart's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

booklover_04's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Very well written. Hard to read at some parts due to the abuse. I would recommend going into this book without prior knowledge.

I knew that she eventually left, which I feel ruined the anticipation. I did find it shocking that she wasn’t the first in her family to leave. Definitely changed the story, as it shaped her experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

amurff's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Blood, and Abandonment

book_bunnie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Abandonment

annakh16's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming and Abandonment

erisouls's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I don’t have the words to explain how profound an experience reading this book was. All I can do is highly recommend it to everyone I know who reads. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

amberlfaris's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Violence, and Abandonment

kaceyp's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

I really loved this memoir! I just found it so insightful, and so accurate in the way it can describe and convey such situations where one can feel so helpless and stuck. I am absolutely in awe of Tara and how she was able to overcome all of these situations by herself, without any support from her family, and came out of it stronger. I really like how she highlighted the turns, and every part of her life that felt like a crossroads to her in her life, leading her to where she is now and her sharing how difficult it was to get there. Tara did a phenomenal job being vulnerable and sharing her story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

m4rtt4's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

rating a memoir is always hard, but it is especially difficult in this case — what can I say except that I was hooked on the story, which is absolutely horrible considering this is her actual life and not just some thriller typa special effects. I'm glad she finally found the courage to stand for herself, yet I can also absolutely understand why she didn't want to or couldn't do it (not that I can relate, I'm so grateful to be privileged in the fact that most of all this sounds like a fever-dreamish nightmare to me).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism