Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

15 reviews

hannahbee_97's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

This was a powerful memoir, not an easy listen, but certainly a worthwhile one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, and Colonisation

blakeandbooks's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

emilyhcox's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

solenodon's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.5

Intense and poetic — will be re reading at some point. Trigger warning for sure 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Vomit, Abortion, and Sexual harassment

stagasaurus's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Abortion, and Abandonment

mlewis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual content and Colonisation

spinesinaline's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

A book I’ve heard great things about. This is a very personal memoir, told by the author after a hospitalization and diagnosis of PTSD and bipolar disorder. Mailhot writes beautifully and painfully, but I do wonder about how personal some memoirs get — I’m assuming her husband would’ve consented to this writing but everything is on display in a very uncomfortable way. I’m certainly not a fan of his after this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Alcohol

whatannikareads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

probably one of the most well-executed books i've ever read. such a particular, poignant writing style that's unflinching, blunt, but emotional. can definitely understand why people would give it a 5/5. this is more of a me problem if anything--the book has many unspoken pockets of underlying meanings that require big brain and time to really dive into and process, and my pea brain and lack of free time prevented me from really sitting with the pieces, so i don't think i absorbed as much information as intended. but there are really powerful sentences in here that stand alone in their quality.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

atsundarsingh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

This was so, so hard to read. It was incredibly poetic, but also one of the rawest things I have ever read, and so painful. This is so intimate and personal, I almost can't believe the author shared all of this. Mailhot is so inspiring, and so intense. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Colonisation