Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Una Educación by Tara Westover

369 reviews

hanlhs's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

Beware content warnings because this book could be triggering, but I would recommend it to anyone with religious trauma and dysfunctional family dynamics. It will stick with me for a long time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Car accident and Mental illness

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

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

jjb21's review against another edition

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

5.0

Stunning, fascinating, sad. Couldn’t believe some of the stories. A painful read at times. Beautiful writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Confinement, Cancer, Bullying, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Medical content, Antisemitism, Gore, Violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

andrea_carroll123's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring relaxing tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Bullying, and Physical abuse

oieusouamv's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Violence, Car accident, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Confinement, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

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

danimcthomas's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Car accident, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

Religious extremism, poverty

daisha101's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racial slurs

the_pink_pharmacist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book is fantastic. Heartbreaking. Eye opening. Must read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Gaslighting