Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Over the Top: My Story by Jonathan Van Ness

14 reviews

shelbyjo's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

caitlinsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Self harm, and Medical content

danajoy's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad

It feels wrong to give this a rating. This memoir is raw and at times confronting as well as being the bright, inspiring JVN you might have seen on Gay of Thrones or Queer Eye. This is a truly vulnerable vision of his life and all its trauma and triumph. 
The audiobook experience was lovely, it sort of feels like you're having a chat. I love that when faced with sharing a particularly difficult part of his life story there is an interlude consisting of a report he wrote as a child. It is an incredible book but there is a lot of pain in here so I'm sure JVN would be ok with me saying, if the discussions of childhood sexual abuse, addiction, self-destructive behaviour or disordered eating are triggering for you it is not just ok but important that you practice self-love and don't retraumatise yourself through this story. 

It is fantastic and well worth the read. Thank you Jonathan Van Ness for sharing your story and I hope that it proved that yes, your fans will still love you if they see all your parts.   

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, and Infidelity

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Medical content

rosalind's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Sexual assault, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Bullying, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Sexual content, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness