Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

5 reviews

imstephtacular's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, and Lesbophobia

careinthelibrary's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Pandemic/Epidemic

thespinystacks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, and Suicide attempt

kshertz's review

dark informative sad slow-paced

4.0

It’s definitely an informative read but it’s just really heavy. I feel like I went into it thinking I was just gonna hear about this one story of this one family and they are talked about a lot but this author really goes into the systems that create a family like this and while I find that to be super important it wasn’t as interesting. But I did learn a lot of information that I can use as a teacher when thinking about CPS and the bigger systems that play that cause harmful situation is for students. Definitely recommend if you’re in the mood for something really heavy.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

another_dahlia's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Confinement, Drug use, Infertility, Police brutality, and Car accident