Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Educated by Tara Westover

199 reviews

pipcorn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexism

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Antisemitism

ana_rrch13's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Violence, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Panic attacks/disorders

vireogirl's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

Such a tough book. So many terrible experiences. Twisted truth. Yet laced with the hope of change. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Violence, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, Antisemitism, and Bullying

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Death, and Pregnancy

sarakeepsgoing's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Animal death

morag's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Racial slurs

venetia_rose's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This such an amazing book, one of the best I’ve read this year! Please check trigger warnings, though, the author’s life is sometimes brutally and graphically described. I’d wait to read this if your mental health isn’t the best at the moment.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child abuse, Blood, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Racial slurs

kgmittty's review against another edition

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

5.0

Westover’s writing is incredible. I could read her life story for ages and never get tired of the way she tells it. 

Her story is heartbreaking, but at the same time it’s healing for a lot of us kids of overly-religious parents. 

I hope she is doing well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Sexual harassment, Racial slurs, Emotional abuse, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Medical content, and Panic attacks/disorders

lisas_novel_idea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

Did not enjoy, don’t k ow why I pick books like this, they always sound interesting until it gets to the nitty gritty of it - mental illness. I’m not a fan of reading about bipolar or seriously uncontrolled mental illness. It is tragic that so many people have to grow up like this, though, close friends and family included-maybe that’s why I don’t enjoy them, too close to home. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

madisonrose1519's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.5

I didn’t know what I was really getting into when I picked up this book. I thought it took place in the Middle East for some reason. I just grabbed it from my mom’s shelf. I don’t know if I would have started it had I known about the deeply conservative U.S. family from which Westover broke free, but I’m SO glad I did. 

Westover’s accounts of what she endured in her childhood were shocking. I’ve been trying to read books I find more challenging, and having been on a memoir kick lately, and this was perfect for that. This is the second memoir I’ve read that exposed some of the darkest sides of Mormonism, and I’m blown away by how little I knew about it before. 

Westover’s writing is formal yet still easy to read and enjoy. It’s somber yet thrilling. I love how she ended so many of her chapters with such poignant, concise remarks, particularly after the most emotionally difficult to read portions. It made it easy to feel like I could set the book aside and say to myself, “And that’s enough of that for now,” so, without a cliffhanger, I could reflect and collect my thoughts on what she had written without getting too overwhelmed by all the trauma she experienced as a child. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Death

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, and Panic attacks/disorders

enbeefinery's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

at a loss for words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness