Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

1013 reviews

apollo0325's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.25

As an avid iCarly viewer in the mid-aughts, Sam Puckett was 100% my favorite character. Hilarious, strong, and absolutely wack, I loved her energy. So when Jennette McCurdy announced a memoir that chronicled her early childhood into her twenties that included snippets of her time on iCarly, I knew I had to read it. I hardly keep up with most celebrities, but I always wondered what had happened to Jennette over the years after iCarly (I never watched Sam & Cat because I don’t like Ariana Grande lmao).

This was such a heartbreaking memoir. It was simple in writing but so smart in a way that Jennette just didn’t hide her feelings or gave us information without any particular emotional attachment so we as the readers could assess the situation for ourselves. The situation was pretty fucked from beginning to end. As someone who is a recovering emotional binge eater, it was not easy to read those similar thoughts reflected through McCurdy’s experience. While the disorders may be different, the feelings are identical. Powerlessness, frustration, anxiety, it all coalesces into shame, guilt, and for some, tragedy.

McCurdy wrote a powerful and moving memoir. It was beautiful and tragic, and I hope one day, McCurdy finds the peace she deserves.

A small, personal critique I had with the book was some difficulty parsing the timeline. We spend a lot of our time in Jennette’s early childhood prior to being casted as a regular on iCarly, but from there, time seems to move much faster. Only slight pacing issues.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Vomit, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Cancer and Terminal illness

Minor: Stalking and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

DEFINITELY be cautious if you struggle with eating disorders, abuse by parental figures, and alcoholism

valkri3's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Vomit, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Self harm

asha_m's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Self harm, Cancer, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Medical content, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, and Physical abuse

harini1308's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, and Death of parent

bisexualbjtch's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Drug abuse

Minor: Rape

emmoon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Death of parent, Vomit, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

hauntedspace's review against another edition

reflective sad

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Cancer, and Physical abuse

ajf1774's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Eating disorder, Grief, and Addiction

lunxchloe's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.25

A hard-hitting memoir. Highly recommend to listen to the audiobook. Jennette does a phenomenal job at narrating, although she sometimes speaks fairly quickly. It's like youre traveling alongside her through her life, and she gives past Jennette a voice. It's tragic that a person had to endure so much, starting at a young age.

Please look up the trigger warnings before reading, because it covers very difficult and heavy topics.

4.25/5*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Mental illness, Addiction, Death of parent, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Vomit, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Stalking

ginmadeline's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis