Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Una Educación by Tara Westover

1051 reviews

whulum's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

megan_j's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

To overcome adversity like she has is simply amazing. It must be so incredibly difficult to try and break free of everything you’ve ever known and remake yourself, but she did. So well written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

pavonini's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

2.5

It was an easy read that pulled me along, and written well enough. I’m not sure it had much of a point beyond her personal story, which is fine. I was just a little disappointed as I expected something more given her PhD.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

miggyfool's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

bookangel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

this book was a wild ride of a time. I expect this book to be about higher education like, for example, a professional advice book, however, I was so wrong. This book was a memoir about a girl who was raised Mormon and did not go to school. I found myself reacting viscerally to what I was listening to. She lived through so much, and I hated that nobody saved her from her saying in abusive family. I kept finding myself wishing she was snap out of the brainwashing because she was on a self-destructive path, which really wasn't her fault. But as she got older, she needed to take ownership of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Car accident, and Gaslighting

katiejean12's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

Although my stomach wrenched at some of the author’s stories, I couldn’t put the book down. She is a fantastic writer who can easily carry a story along while simultaneously gripping you in each chapter. My heart hurts for the people in stories like these, so I was close to giving it a 4 star. But, it is not her fault that she was raised in a vastly different world than others. She simply decided to share her hurt with the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

courtneyboehmler's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

jmyodafriend's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

"Educated" was not at all what I expected, although it is very well written. The memoir reads more like a novel than non-fiction, and kept me turning pages even after each shocking or horrifying recollection of the author's life. I'm amazed at how she was able to reshape herself and her life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Blood, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

mvr's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

gmaz's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Violence, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail