Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle Dowd

20 reviews

chaoticenby's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, and Medical trauma

kelanor's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Abandonment

growintogardens's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Abandonment

peachy_dreamy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

erinsampson91's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, and Death of parent

moonwitch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

nodalec's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

Listened to this as an audiobook, and it was an incredible story. It's a rough read, the amount of abuse is pretty high, so check the content warnings if you're worried. Recommended reading if you're going through a cult-reading phase.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

thehungrylittlebookworm's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

I don’t read a ton of nonfiction but cults always fascinate me. I can’t help but feel for her throughout her challenging life and am glad she was able to get the help she needed to recover and share this beautiful story with us. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

theinkdarksea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual assault and Religious bigotry

chovereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense

wowwowowow this book was a wild ride. if you have religious and family trauma, tread carefully. fascinating and beautifully written and well worth the read if you can tolerate it.

the writing style and timeline was a bit confusing, I will say. sometimes it would jump around and I think it was intentional but I wasn’t sure at times where we were in the story. I loved the way she wrote from the POV of her child self — very matter of fact, telling us what she thought, what she was told, not interlacing her freed adult self into the writing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting