Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King

11 reviews

eliscout's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.75

This veered a little too much into memoir for me in the middle but brought it back by ending on how we should all love Meatloaf.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity and Domestic abuse

kitschysweater's review against another edition

funny medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Addiction, Death of parent, and Drug use

Minor: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, and Body shaming

odrib's review

funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Infidelity, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

sjanke2's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Grief, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, and Alcohol

surefinewhatever_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

2.5

Ugggghhhhh
Y’all, I was *really* looking forward to this one. I was so excited to read a book of essays about much of the culture that I grew up within and loved. Hello the table of contents boasts essays about degrassi, hot topic, americas next top model, jersey shore & Bath & body works!! I was thrilled to read an essay collection that appeared to discuss the exact culture I was raised in! But honestly, it felt like this collection was more about Rax’s sexual exploits than it was about the culture. Either this book needed to be marketed differently or edited more. It was exhausting for each chapter to come back to who she was sleeping with (significantly older man, someone else’s husband/boyfriend, shitty dude after shitty dude), and frankly, it became repetitive & boring. I was so ready to love this one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Drug use, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, and Body shaming

lowbrowhighart's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Infidelity

Moderate: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Drug use, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Domestic abuse, Bullying, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Chronic illness, and Physical abuse

mateoj's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective medium-paced

2.75

not BAD, but wildly misrepresented by the uh. everything about it. this is a personal essay collection, which is not a bad thing to be but not what I thought I was signing up for. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

mlafave's review against another edition

funny slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Infidelity

dogbuttsandbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Abortion, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Fatphobia

kjerstia's review against another edition

dark funny reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship