Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Educated by Tara Westover

52 reviews

erisouls's review

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I don’t have the words to explain how profound an experience reading this book was. All I can do is highly recommend it to everyone I know who reads. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Misogyny, Blood, Car accident, Abandonment, Animal death, and Body horror

amberlfaris's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Violence, and Domestic abuse

kaceyp's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

I really loved this memoir! I just found it so insightful, and so accurate in the way it can describe and convey such situations where one can feel so helpless and stuck. I am absolutely in awe of Tara and how she was able to overcome all of these situations by herself, without any support from her family, and came out of it stronger. I really like how she highlighted the turns, and every part of her life that felt like a crossroads to her in her life, leading her to where she is now and her sharing how difficult it was to get there. Tara did a phenomenal job being vulnerable and sharing her story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Domestic abuse

m4rtt4's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

rating a memoir is always hard, but it is especially difficult in this case — what can I say except that I was hooked on the story, which is absolutely horrible considering this is her actual life and not just some thriller typa special effects. I'm glad she finally found the courage to stand for herself, yet I can also absolutely understand why she didn't want to or couldn't do it (not that I can relate, I'm so grateful to be privileged in the fact that most of all this sounds like a fever-dreamish nightmare to me).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Violence, Medical content, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia

csgmoore's review against another edition

challenging emotional relaxing sad slow-paced

The repeated use of the n-word from a white author completely takes away from the message of becoming educated. There is no excuse for this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Child abuse

taynicole2698's review

challenging reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Car accident, Stalking, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Gaslighting, and Body horror

vireogirl's review

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

Such a tough book. So many terrible experiences. Twisted truth. Yet laced with the hope of change. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Violence, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, Antisemitism, and Bullying

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Death, and Pregnancy

lisas_novel_idea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

Did not enjoy, don’t k ow why I pick books like this, they always sound interesting until it gets to the nitty gritty of it - mental illness. I’m not a fan of reading about bipolar or seriously uncontrolled mental illness. It is tragic that so many people have to grow up like this, though, close friends and family included-maybe that’s why I don’t enjoy them, too close to home. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

haleynaley's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

A book I think that anyone struggling while in college would appreciate. Illuminating and tense, beautifully and honestly written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Racial slurs

Hard r drops toward the middle of the book

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Ableism, Racial slurs, Violence, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Racism, Sexism, Death, Domestic abuse, Blood, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Grief