Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young

28 reviews

zulm4's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism and Sexual assault

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Religious bigotry

mmmbutter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, and Religious bigotry

This book is an excellent, harrowing account by the writer of her childhood and subsequent enlistment into the USA military, from 1 cult to another, she finds strength and resilence to break free.

charliemaigne's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Slavery, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Islamophobia, Medical content, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

stevia333k's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense

4.5

I found out about the author via her tiktok account knitting cult lady 

I want it first known i read only the part about the army because I've been encountering a lot of microaggressions lately over the military & i didn't have time to listen to the first 2 parts because of that recent crisis.

This book helped clarify how a lot of these horrible laws such as the no water laws were normalized in the military before they became laws. I often call racial capitalist patriarchy a dictatorship of war rape & the history of plantations bears that out, though she didn't necessarily know USAmerican history before joining. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Classism

svtephreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and War

lewfromthelou's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and War

Moderate: Death, Self harm, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Islamophobia, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

julschapman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

daphnehumming's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

3.75

I found the army portions to be more engaging. I am curious of what she has to say about good versus bad leadership. It’s well written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, and War

gotta_grow_up's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

This was a very difficult read as the content can be very heavy at times but overall this was an amazing and enlightening story of self discovery, perseverance and the dangers of group behaviour in any form. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Grief, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Incest, Blood, and Abandonment

There is disturbing descriptions about assult, abuse, rape and overall life in cults (both religious and not). These descriptions include extreme harm done to children in these scenarios (this harm was at times sexual in nature). As well as the life long repercussions and continued impacts of that trauma. Depictions of systemic sexism and abuse, as well as suicidal ideation.

dafyddclover's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

This book is so intensely personal and is literally what happened to her, so it's difficult to rate, but I think the quality of the story telling is really inconsistent throughout the book. Despite the efforts to create a through line, it felt like two different books, and ultimately glossed over a lot of what I would have been more interested in about her pist-cult life in favor of relitigating disagreements, telling army stories, and praising the military industrial complex even as she calls it a cult. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Islamophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail