Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

5 reviews

tetedump's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

kipibookclub's review

dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

thalia_gossling's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Violence, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

hannah_m_g's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

Bought this after reading Beautiful Boy (the companion memoir) not expecting to like it as much - I actually enjoyed it more. It's more fast-paced and less repetitive in comparison, reads more like a story, and offers the full picture of what actually happened with Nic. I don't know which I would suggest reading first - Beautiful Boy offers a lot of interesting facts and research into drug addiction and of course the devastating outside perspective of the parent. I would recommend Tweak if you're purely interested in the first-person perspective of addiction. Reading Tweak afterward definitely felt like filling in all of the gaps in David's story. I enjoyed both of them, but feel more connected with Nic's story, though I suspect that is an age/circumstance thing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Death, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

avatargaby's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

4.25

I personally believe this book to be extremely well written. Mainly due to the topic of the book, it is a little difficult to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

There are mentions of sexual assault/abuse mainly towards the end.