Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Lisa Pulitzer, Jenna Miscavige Hill

12 reviews

miggyfool's review against another edition

4.5

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

abby314159's review against another edition

3.75

dark informative reflective medium-paced

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Well written first-person account of scientology that gives some insight into the experiences of those in David Miscavige's (evil) orbit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting

Moderate: Confinement, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment

Minor: Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, Abortion

riahlex's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Gaslighting, Abandonment

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt

Minor: Homophobia, Abortion

siobhanward's review against another edition

3.5

emotional informative slow-paced

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This book piqued my interest since I knew that Shelley Miscavige is the (probably) missing wife of the leader of scientology, so I figured a book from one of her family members was interesting, and it definitely was. I didn't know a whole lot about scientology going in other than the basics. Frankly, it just was never a rabbit hole that I fell down, but wow there's a ton out there. Learning about what it's like on the inside from someone who experienced it first hand as a child was an experience.

Hill's accounts of her time in scientology, training from an early age to be a "good" scientologist is fascinating and heartbreaking - I'm so, so glad she got out but I'm now more disturbed knowing what's happening to those who are still inside. I definitely found this book was slow at points. Hill's account was detailed, but sometimes to the point of being overly detailed or repetitive, but it was still a solid read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicide

havenraven23's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship

Minor: Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt

stepnic's review against another edition

3.5

dark hopeful informative inspiring sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Mental illness, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Abandonment

Minor: Death, Abortion

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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 3.5 stars- I thought for a memoir the narration was excellent. It was quite slow-moving, yet there was a lot going on. I was so glad in the end that the outcome was what it was. I never realized quite how bad Scientology was. I knew it was bad, but not this much of a total cult. The fact it has been declared a religion in the US is terrifying! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexism

Minor: Abortion

beholderess's review against another edition

2.0

emotional slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse

Moderate: Confinement

grimviolins's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional informative medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Abandonment

Minor: Confinement, Stalking, Abortion, Sexual harassment

libraryofkayla's review against another edition

3.0

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Gaslighting, Abandonment