Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

10 reviews

sarahdenn's review

ableism

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abortion, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual content

twas's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective

4.5

Hilarious and fascinating! Tiffany has had an interesting life, and I have already shared some of the anecdotes in conversation. She doesn't always come out looking great, but really happy I've read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Violence, Abandonment, Excrement, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

emmehooks's review

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Abortion, Ableism, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

marchbabyy_08's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring

4.0

 Imma keep this short, but I really liked reading about Haddish's life and about how aspects of her childhood affect her today.

A lot of people are criticizing how she makes the heavy parts of her story "too lighthearted." At the end of the day. she's not telling someone else's life story, she's telling hers . She's a comedian and said repeatedly throughout the book that comedy is what got her through many dark times, so it only makes sense that she would tell these stories in a somewhat humorous tone.
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Abandonment, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

dillybar20's review against another edition

(copy and pasted from my Goodreads review)

I hate to drop books. I'd rather leave books for years in my shelves than admit I'll never finish them. This audiobook isn't worth opening again. Tiffany Haddish uses the word(s?) "pow-wow", but she's not Native American. Not okay. Tiffany Haddish drops sexual abuse on her readers with no trigger warning and then immediately admits that she also dumps her sexual abuse story on the people who buy tickets to her comedy show without warning them in advance. Even if there was a warning people don't go to comedy shows to hear you talk about being sexually abused. Not the time or the place. Tiffany's boyfriend wanted to be a pimp. Tiffany was 100% percent okay with that except for the fact that he'll come home with "whore smell." She implies these women deserve to be prostituted and trafficked because they're "nasty".  Did I mention that she self-harmed in the classroom of her school in front of other kids because, in her own words here, she wanted attention? In short she needs a hell of alot of therapy. The end.

Triggers:

Spoiler

Self-Harm, Abuse towards Disabled People and Abled, Sexual Abuse.

The only trigger I won't hide behind the spoiler tag is prostitution because I can't find the option for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

sarahlk's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

For a starter she really has had an interesting life and it was really interesting hearing her talk about what she has been through and how it has effected her. 

With that said I really didn't like how this book was written, it somewhat felt like it didn't know what to be a comedy or a serious telling about her life. You can tell (especially in the audiobook) that she is trying to be funny, and she kinda states it when she gets serious, but to me this book wasn't funny at all.
I also tought some parts was really confusing beacouse she jumped so much in the story, back and forth again and again. I can somewhat see what she was trying to do with seperating everything to people but when she has a chapter for her mother, grandmother, stepfather and her groving up, it gets too much. 

I also really didn't like how excesive the word B***H was used as a degrading think towards women, every woman that isn't her friend is a B. She also had a very problematic chapter about a disabled man where she mimicked his voice (probably to be funny). 

All this just didn't sit right with me, so i have to give it a low rating although she had an incredible story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abortion, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexism

madisonfrank's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Abortion, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Violence

_anna_banana_'s review against another edition

0.5

Many things are off about this book (the general discussion of race, ethnicity, disability, and sex work range from messily uninformed to deeply offensive). Even listening to her perform the audiobook there are moments that feel like she isn't saying her own words, especially during the "overview" of her trauma and how she acted in school. Once I saw other reviews here highlighting that Tucker Max is the ghost writer, I started to understand why I felt uncomfortable. I question the ethics of this arrangement. 

I don't know anything else about the circumstances of this book's development and marketing, but the final product is a disaster. I stopped  at "Roscoe." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Physical abuse, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Trafficking

alyse's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

tatitos's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse