Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

I am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

3 reviews

katreena's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

3.5

I really mixed feelings about this one.
The author is clearly racist and ableist and does little to hide. However a very big theme this memoir is that he is not a good person. It's a very raw retelling of his time moving to New York to perform as a drag queen. The story is heavily centered around an abusive relationship with an escort. The author does NOT sugarcoat the experiences or his own involvement with drug use, club culture, hookup culture, escort culture and the bad things be did in them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Death, Incest, and Abortion

aoifemarie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

marisacarpico's review against another edition

emotional funny sad medium-paced

3.0

Don’t remember what possessed me to get this audiobook, but I wish I’d listened to is years ago because it felt a bit old hat to me now. Kilmer-Purcell’s story is certainly detailed and specific, but here was perhaps a tone here that didn’t work for me. A little needy in its attempt to be outrageous. Do appreciate the frankness, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual content