Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir by Yrsa Daley-Ward

7 reviews

drskaninchen's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Racism, Terminal illness, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child abuse

veve_reads's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

arsenic_'s review

emotional sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Religious bigotry

kaymichelle's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Racism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Homophobia

penofpossibilities's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Antisemitism

rebeccasian274's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

Quite impressed - a great story of a young Black woman growing up in the institutionally racist UK, and the identity crisis and mental illness it can bring. Yrsa uses the free verse naturally without overdoing it

and I loved the cyclical ending of the unicorn in the rosebush

! I will say it was incredibly harrowing and took some pauses to process but should be expected due to the nature of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Addiction

ambergentleman's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Racial slurs, Racism, and Antisemitism