amandamethot's review against another edition
3.0
Moderate: Suicide, Trafficking, and Murder
alsoapples's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Trafficking, Confinement, Gaslighting, Murder, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Death, Racism, and Torture
orchidd's review
3.5
Moderate: Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Gaslighting
butlerebecca's review
4.0
Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Murder, and Genocide
Moderate: Sexual assault
Minor: Racism, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Trafficking
librarymouse's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Fatphobia, Trafficking, Suicide, Bullying, Grief, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Toxic friendship
twilightfan420's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Trafficking, Suicide, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Emotional abuse
boneloose's review against another edition
4.5
I personally went into it thinking it'd be much more of a linguistic focus (which... the title IS Cultish, of course it's primarily about cults) and wished there would have been more of a deep dive into linguistic theory as it pertains to cultish language (for example, I would have loved to see a thorough look into how the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis plays into language manipulation rather than just briefly mentioning it), but I'm not going to knock a star off an objectively incredible book because I had intially misunderstood what it was aiming to do.
Highly recommend broadly, but especially to people who think they hate nonfiction, because the writing style makes it much easier to transition into!
Graphic: Death and Suicide
Moderate: Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Trafficking
tender_onion's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cultural appropriation, Genocide, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, and Violence
spindeln's review against another edition
4.25
Considering that the only two books I have rated 5 stars this year are non-fiction, I should probably read more non-fiction.
Moderate: Murder, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Suicide, and Violence
Minor: Cultural appropriation and Trafficking
sydneybedell's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting
Minor: Cancer, Suicide, and Trafficking