Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Elvis And Me by Sandra Harmon, Priscilla Presley

50 reviews

sunspinner730's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

ellaollenburg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

I thought that this book was extremely emotional. Priscilla writes in a way that makes you feel as if you are experiencing it all with her. She tells these important events in her and Elvis's relationship that changed the way I had viewed the couple all my life. While I have previously known that fame isn't as glamorous as it seems, I never thought all of this could come along with it.
I also thought this book had an adventurous undertone. While it is informative and even a bit depressing Priscilla did a phenomenal job at always trailing bad moments with great life events. While they had numerous issues and were nowhere near perfect, they had a lot of good moments as well. I personally liked how Priscilla really focused on the fact that Elvis should be portrayed as a man. Yes, he was the king of rock and roll and a famous rockstar, but at the end of the day, he was a man. A man who gets angry and fights with his wife, a man who drinks too much and commits adultery, but still just a man. Priscilla had always said that no matter if it made the outlook better or worse, people always say Elvis as the idea of him, never just Elvis. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Violence

chelseainthesky's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

underwaterlauren's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

danajoy's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Drug use

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

sierrajhansen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

the relationship between priscilla beaulieu and elvis presley is truly astonishing—it’s truly a y/n fanfiction come to life, but with grooming and toxicity. it’s really interesting how you can love someone so much, even when they have done truly terrible things to you and stopped you from having a childhood that didn’t revolve around them. i’m proud of priscilla for making her own way in the world and making peace with the situation.

btw, this book scratched the psych part of my brain; throughout reading, i continuously wondered, “did elvis have a personality disorder?” much to think about. 

this was also really awesome as an audiobook—read by priscilla, i loved hearing her stories in her own voice, and i’m obsessed with the fact that when she would giggle at the end of telling a funny story from her past with elvis, they kept it in the recording :) made it a million times better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Rape

julessssss's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

I would recommend the audiobook narrated by Presley herself, as I believe she conveys important emotions in her voice that probably are not in the text. 

I randomly came upon this while looking for an audiobook to listen to while I played video games lol. 

I cannot say that this is a good memoir (in terms of the genre), as Presley (as she even says) is painting a specific picture, and one that is complimentary to Elvis on purpose. With this in mind, I enjoyed it a lot. And at the very least, I feel like I have some insight into her thought processes after going through what she did, which is interesting on its own. 

Overall, I would recommend - just keep in mind Presley's purpose in writing this, etc. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Rape

ero628's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

3.0

It was hard to read this book in the context of 2024. Parts of it felt like reading a true crime story, written by the victim who doesn’t know she’s a victim. 

I couldn’t put it down though. There’s some fun history in it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

kat_reads_'s review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This was such an interesting read! Despite having friends and family that were OBSESSED with Elvis, I never got the bug. Reading this story from the perspective of Priscilla looking back on her life was very thought provoking. Especially because you could see how she was justifying this relationship as a teenager (14-19) and then reflecting back on it as an adult. 10/10 would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

broncoannee's review against another edition

dark

1.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship