Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy

993 reviews

noroomforghosts's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cancer, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Vomit

bexcapades's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Vomit, and Child abuse

Moderate: Drug abuse

stephriggs25's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Vomit, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual assault, and Terminal illness

pmhandley's review

dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

5.0

Hard to add anything review-wise that hasn't already been said. I had this book on hold for MONTHS and it was worth the wait and didn't disappoint. Never thought I would be rooting for someone to die of cancer, but this book got me to. McCurdy is incredibly astute and I hope she lives a long, happy life as a writer and director while nobody bothers her. The ironic part for me personally was reading about McCurdy's misery with fame she didn't ask for, because I grew up without cable, have never seen a single episode of iCarly and had never heard of her until she was on a podcast I listen to talking about the book. I would literally not have recognized her on the street and had no idea what the hell a "sam puckett" was. (And I'm not googling what a butter sock is.)  Anyway, Jennette if you read this I only know you from this book and not a kid's TV show, so you have at least one fan that only knows you as a deeply talented author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Addiction, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Sexual content

Minor: Infidelity and Toxic relationship

meaghanpal's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

The beginning of this book felt a bit slow at points. Perhaps it was the choppy dialogue bits that I always find a bit confusing in memoirs because the dialogue surely can’t be one hundred percent what happened. Memory bits aside, the book was very interesting to hear about Jennette McCurdys point of view and her life experience especially when I saw a smal part of it on screen growing up. Also, I find it helpful to read about relationships with moms that are not the picture perfect best friend one depicted in Gilmore Girls. I relate to Jennette a lot more. The middle and end of the book were more fast paced with shorter chapters at points that helped the book flow. I guess I started to appreciate her writing style more once it got to the point where she was on Nickelodeon because I had more of a connection with that time in my own life. Jennette does a great job processing her emotions and experiences and I can only begin to imagine what a tiring and long process that was and is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Medical content, Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Drug use, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Alcohol, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, and Vomit

Minor: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Stalking, Sexual violence, and Self harm

Highly encourage anyone to read the trigger/content warnings the book is very graphic. While I think it is good I am cautious recommending it because of the explicit content.

becca_w_'s review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Medical content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Addiction, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood and Pedophilia

Minor: Abandonment

This book is great, but if you struggle with an eating disorder I would recommend not reading it. There is extremely triggering content related to that throughout the book! Just do what you think is the best for you :)

jcd1013's review against another edition

reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Engaging listen, although the author spoke a little too quickly on the audiobook at times. The chapters were short, so it made for a quick read. I've never heard of Jennette McCurdy before but the book started circulating around my Mormon/post-Mormon groups because she grew up LDS. Her relationship with her mom was very complex and I appreciated how she couldn't recognize it as abuse until years later. I wish the book had gone into some of her therapy around that, as she stopped going to her first therapist when the subject was brought up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Sexual assault

veeples's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Finishing this, it’s so clear to see why this has been such a hit. Jennette does an amazing job writing about her very emotionally devastating and dark life events with a measure of levity without obscuring how bad the events truly were. It’s easy to eat up a good chunk of the book the way the narrative grips you in. I felt engaged through and through and would absolutely recommend anyone who’s never really read memoirs before (like me!).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Vomit, Addiction, Child abuse, Cancer, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

kunma's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

It's so sad to see how Jennette was treated by her mom and the industry (plus the media). I appreciate and admire her for talking publicly about this, because the world needs to know how badly actors are treated. 

But check out the trigger warnings before sitting down to read this book.

Ps.
I loved the writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, Terminal illness, Vomit, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Body shaming, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Drug abuse, Cursing, and Infidelity

courtneyahunt's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Sexual assault