Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

30 reviews

annabelle42688's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

A journey. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Abortion, and Pregnancy

bookworm91's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

2.75

Well written, truthful, difficult subject matter

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Grief, Death of parent, and Colonisation

mdavis26's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Incest, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

I'm struggling to rate this one because I don't feel like I have adequate words to do so?

I struggled with the format--or lack thereof really--and the audiobook narrator. I actually got like 35% through and then had to restart it waaaaay slower because I was finding myself missing things and not paying attention. I definitely think I would've done better with it reading it physically, there are just way too many poetic moments and literary devices at work for me to track on audio. I'm grateful for the Q&A style afterwords because it did clear up some of what the author was attempting to do. Like I now have a greater appreciation for the work she put into making her writing seem simple and punchy when while reading it, it mostly just felt jarring and hard to follow or stay invested in. 

The topics covered are obviously intense. Big trigger warnings for a lot. Covering them is absolutely vital to her story, though, and her journey towards reconciliation and healing.

Overall, I can tell it was brilliant, it just wasn't totally for me in this format. And that's okay and doesn't detract from the skill it took to write it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

carnimdream's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Racism, Violence, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Chronic illness and Abortion

akgrantmatz's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

3.25

I don't know if this style is for me. The prose is incredible, and the story, anger, and honesty are important. But the brutal honesty and lack of a sense of Terese as a person almost reads to me as dehumanizing. The substance of the book is difficult, but the voice is uncomfortable.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Eating disorder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

kelsey_kels's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Self harm, Death of parent, and Alcohol

aprilhinkle's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

3.75

Painful but important. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

sillysausagezj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Colonisation

Minor: Abortion

eve81's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Colonisation