Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Rabbit by Jeannine Amber, Patricia Williams

9 reviews

pantswithpockets's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, and Violence

brandonsbooked's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

I wanted to read 𝘙𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘵, the
autobiography of comedian Ms. Pat Williams after
watching her show on BET+. I would crack up
watching the show loosely based around her life but it
also made me curious about the serious subject matter
that she’d turned into jokes.

As one of five siblings born to an alcoholic mother,
much of Ms. Pat’s life reads like an Urban Fiction
novel, which only makes it sadder when you remember
it’s true. By 15 she was a mother of two children by a
man almost a decade older than her. Resorting to
selling crack to survive. A string of bad choices and
bad men lead Ms. Pat astray she follows some advice
which helps lead her to comedy. There are moments of
humor, but don’t look for the book to be outright
funny. Life in Atlanta during the crack epidemic was
anything but, yet Ms. Pat’s story remains hopeful and
inspirational. ✨

Reviewing someone’s life story is HARD, so I like to
focus on the places their life too me. I loved that this
autobiography feels like a journey that I went on with
Ms. Pat. Her childlike interpretation of her life growing
up was felt wholeheartedly. Her naiveness when she
thought she was being loved translated well. I
understood her desperation to make things work for
her family. I see the light that was her comedy
bubbling underneath. It feels like I went through all of
this with her which kept me hooked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

smashingreads's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Initial thoughts: Every time she mentioned her age (at any point in this book) I was like damn. She did all that/has been through all that and she wasn’t even 16.. 17… 20..? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence

kaimynameis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

 I wanted to cry at some places. Not even the sad places but after she meets her husband because the whole thing plays out like a film where he's a little overwhelmed by her world but he sees the good in her and there's so much good in Ms. Pat. It's like watching a sitcom for 10 seasons and finally seeing the lead win without the other shoe dropping. The first half of this book is sad in a "she was a kid who deserved better" but it's this weird double edged sword because you can teach a child better but there's always outside influences at bay but she made it through and become my favorite comedian and the star of my favorite sitcom The Ms Pat Show 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

Am I a jerk for giving a memoir about really hard shit less than five stars? Maybe, but it's mostly because I wanted more, does that help? I wanted the author to go in more detail in some of the more recent years of her life and not stick so much to the "I made it out of the hood and turned my life around" storyline I'm sure the publisher wanted to push.

All that aside, this book was WILD. It's one of those books that my privileged ass reads and just cannot fathom that someone actually has a life like this. Every minute in the first 75% or so was one insane thing after another. I can't say I've read many books from that POV, so I am really glad that I did read it, and I can't say I'll easily forget it either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Police brutality and Abandonment

Minor: Abortion

ithinkillreadit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault

kaitlyndeluise's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence

Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Abortion, and Death of parent

chantae's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Sexual assault

pumba0515's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

As someone who loves Ms Pat's comedy and interviews, her memoir is beautiful. There were many times that it made me cry, but there were even more times it made me laugh. A lot of stories/experiences she's brought up in interviews are written in detail here and include her thoughts and feelings as an adult and as a child. Great book, was genuinely sad when it was over.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship