kvanderheyden's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Mental illness, Grief, Violence, Death of parent, and Cancer
postmodernplacebo's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Addiction, and Eating disorder
Moderate: Mental illness and Rape
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
k1313's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Grief, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Alcohol, and Fatphobia
Moderate: Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Domestic abuse
Minor: Forced institutionalization and Stalking
gilmargirl's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Adult/minor relationship, and Cursing
Minor: Alcoholism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Vomit
amyhab's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Death of parent, Bullying, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Child abuse
morimyths's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Eating disorder, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Addiction, Body shaming, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Vomit, and Mental illness
Moderate: Cursing and Medical content
Minor: Death of parent, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Death, and Suicidal thoughts
shellycp's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders
esme_may's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Vomit, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Addiction, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Rape, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Cursing, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Medical content
Minor: Classism
sarahdm's review against another edition
3.0
Honestly, this book was a slog for about the first 100 pages. While Jennette is young, her writing is simple. Its hard to engage with. As you read on she gets angrier, her thoughts are more complex. Its like her writing is aging with her, maturing as you turn the page. I really struggle with those first 100 pages. I felt disconnected from the trauma, kept at arms length. Then as we enter the teens and young adult phases of her life, I’m actually enjoying the book as she really dives deep into what shes feeling. Her writing isn’t groundbreaking buts its tolerable enough to no longer distract me from the actual content of the book.
There is a lot of emotions on display. Mostly anger, hopelessness, suicidal ideation, grief, emptiness. Something in Jennette’s story will be relatable to you as she goes through the universal and unique hardships of womanhood and childhood abuse. But at the end of the day those emotions are all thats here. This isn’t the journey of healing you think it is, but the declaration of the attempt to start healing.
There were times this book was down right boring. The trauma is not hard to read or harrowing like some reviewers say. But I also don’t see this as an entitles celebrity who’s just complaining as other reviewers think. It just kind of feels like life’s normal bullshit that happens to a lot of us. The abusive parent, the OCD, the body issues, the alcohol problems, issues with relationships and sex. These are not uniquely celebrity problems. Which is either gonna pull you in or bore you to tears.
The title and blurb really give you the whole picture all by itself. I think I could have skipped this one.
Moderate: Grief, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Self harm, Eating disorder, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Body shaming, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship
annekepaige's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Cancer, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, and Mental illness