Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Una Educación by Tara Westover

242 reviews

jessicalarson125's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Blood

Minor: Racism and Racial slurs

zee_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Cancer, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, and Medical content

reegan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

2.0

 This was another audiobook-required-to-finish-it book for me this year. I read the first 30 or 40 pages on Kindle but couldn’t stay focused, so I rented the audiobook and FLEW through it. Did I read Reddit theories to patch in parts I missed?? Absolutely. This was still a fantastic read. I enjoyed the plot twist at the end revealing you-know-what, and honestly, I probably should’ve seen it coming sooner. Fantastic writing from the perspective of someone descending into madness… or rather someone at the hands of severe mental illness?? Regardless, Mona Awad slayed with this, and Samantha Hanratty NEEDS to play a role if this ever hits screenwriters. Side note: When playing Sophie Amoss’ reading on Audible at 3x speed, she sounded like Peyton List, and I could only imagine her speaking. It was so frustrating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Racism, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Child abuse, Blood, Violence, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Racial slurs

Minor: Animal death, Car accident, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, and Homophobia

clorbor07's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Fire/Fire injury, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Pregnancy, Car accident, Religious bigotry, Blood, and Bullying

Minor: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, and Antisemitism

tigerkind's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Both praising and criticizing this  feels wrong, as it contains  fairly detailed accounts of abuse. However, it was extremely well written and constructed, allowing for a reflection on the broader systematic workings of power relations in religion, family and education. Even though a memoir, it was at times written with so much detail and emotion that I had to remind myself I was listening to a non-fiction work and not a novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Unfortunately, it feels like the legal challenges the author apparently faced, which forced her to include disclaimers, paraphrase and use pseudonyms, somewhat hampered the overall impact of the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death, Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Car accident, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, Gaslighting, Body horror, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Child abuse, and Medical content

Moderate: Classism, Slavery, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Minor: Genocide, Islamophobia, Murder, and Police brutality

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

chamomile_calm's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Blood and Car accident

Minor: Animal death

heatherchrisman's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Car accident, Mental illness, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Racism, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Violence

jpn99's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Misogyny, Animal death, Grief, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

maddiet425's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Car accident, Physical abuse, Animal death, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Gore, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Racial slurs and Antisemitism