Reviews tagging 'Rape'

They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up by Eternity Martis

13 reviews

mayamcdo's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Police brutality

Minor: Mental illness

samchelsey's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

A must read for everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Police brutality, Cultural appropriation, and Alcohol

Minor: Hate crime, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

abitbetterbooks's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

I really loved this memoir! It was well-paced and very engaging, thoughtful and incisive while also being quite funny at times.

This book is quite literally close to home; Western is about an hour from where I live, and my sibling even attended the school at the same time as the author. A lot of the cultural reference points were familiar and very relatable, and it was interesting to see how Martis’ experiences of university life was similar and also incredibly different from mine.

I will absolutely read any further work from Martis & would highly recommend picking up this memoir! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Rape

capacity4wonder's review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Beautifully written. A desperately needed book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Rape and Alcohol

sammietaylor's review against another edition

fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

bookhails's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

winterdream1999's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This book was a lot to take in and really helps put a lot of current day issues into perspective. There were so many things discussed such as microagressions and the trauma of sexual assault survivors, especially for women of colour. There were definitely moments were I was very disgusted, but it was necessary to really get a glimpse of what was happening. Overall, it was a tragically beautiful book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Cultural appropriation, and Gaslighting

talshoulia's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

morganeua's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

jadenebean's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

This audiobook gave me lots to reflect upon about my years at post secondary institutions in Ontario. While I didn’t find the audiobook to be particularly gripping, it was a short listen and I finished it quite quickly. I love that it was read by the author. The relationships, including the slow demise of the friendship with her best friend and her strained relationship with her father, were hard to hear about. Eternity’s perspective as a Black woman in Canada is a very important one and one that everyone should take the time to learn about and consider. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Rape