Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy

43 reviews

connorjdaley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

A memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star about her upbringing and acting career. Who hasn’t been drawn in by the name of this alone? 

What can be said about this one that hasn’t already been said? Probably nothing. This is dark, gritty, honest, bare, and overly revealing. It’s written like someone just needed to get the words out, and with the content involved, I’d bet that really was the case. Living out someone else’s dream is not something you should have to do. Parents shouldn’t live vicariously through their children. Your life should be your own. 

An important view into how the world, mothers included, treat their daughters/girls and women. Personally a 5/5*. The author’s narration was an added gift to the novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child abuse, Grief, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

meaghanpal's review against another edition

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.

yourfavcarmen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cancer, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Body horror, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, Cursing, Death of parent, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Death, and Medical trauma

inthemoonforcheese's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Rape, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Classism, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, and Stalking

bealittlebrave's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Chronic illness, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Grief, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Moderate: Infidelity and Classism

theonlybaillie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

This book was really...just really.

The only reason I am not giving it 5 stars is because I found it to be really triggering at parts, so that kind of took the enjoyment level down a bit. However, I think that Jennette has such great writing ability, and I hope she writes more books in the future! This is an important book. (Just make sure to check TW before reading!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Vomit, Gaslighting, Self harm, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, and Addiction

Minor: Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Infidelity

c_nagels's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Cursing, Gaslighting, Grief, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Drug abuse

courteez's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Self harm, Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Bullying, and Vomit

nicolescottwv's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Vomit, Alcoholism, Cancer, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Grief, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Self harm, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Abandonment, Drug abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

cocoanut7's review against another edition

emotional funny sad fast-paced

5.0

Horrible upbringing for her but so honest and vulnerable. I really enjoyed it in a kind of heavy way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, Vomit, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Eating disorder