Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness

18 reviews

readwithmesarah's review against another edition

inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Drug use, and Eating disorder

tieflingmom's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Cancer, Rape, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Dysphoria, Addiction, Homophobia, Death, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Child abuse, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Animal death, Biphobia, Dementia, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Self harm

rainbowjawn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Homophobia, and Bullying

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Eating disorder

_inge's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring medium-paced

3.0

This feels very authentic. It’s clearly written by Jonathan, so that does mean it’s not structured as nicely or does anything special, but you can tell so much thought and effort has been put into it. Jonathan explains issues within the LGBTQ+ community because JVN feels they’re important to share, not because the publishers wanted to put them in. I’d especially recommend the audiobook, I really can’t imagine this coming across as well on paper. 

This audiobook was genuinely a hopeful one. We all mess up in life, we might not immediately achieve our goals, but if you stay true to who you are despite what others might say or do, you’ll get there in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Grief, Death, and Addiction

Moderate: Pedophilia, Self harm, Body shaming, Bullying, Kidnapping, and Vomit

smc15's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Drug use, Addiction, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Pedophilia

bethsbooketlist's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

✒"My suffering did not undo my joy" 

🌟🌟🌟🌟-  I already loved JVN from Queer Eye and his podcast but this book had me appreciating his honesty, his ownership of identity that has taken a journey to uncover, and his fight for the vulnerable. He tackles some very difficult subjects about his life and, even with a bit of sass, does not try to lighten the darkness and shadow of what transpired. He can be brutal, exposing some of his past shame and decisions without excuse. But he also expresses an overwhelming amount of love and compassion for himself and others, something we should all strive to have in our own lives. The audio by JVN himself drew me in, I don't think it would of been the same reading without the sassy voice of this queen guiding us through. I thoroughly enjoyed and will repeatedly come back to some important reflections about my own life from this, such as the quote above that struck such a chord❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Death of parent, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual assault, Homophobia, Grief, and Toxic relationship

krispy_reading's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Toxic relationship

Minor: Self harm

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.75

An absolute treat. I love how much work that Jonathan Van Ness has put in with his mental health that he can share all of this. And the audiobook is just so good. I would jump to read anything else that he publishes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Terminal illness, Addiction, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Cancer, Death of parent, and Child abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Bullying, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Religious bigotry, Body shaming, and Animal death

Could be helpful for survivors of trauma, who have done some processing, to show that things can and will get better

risten's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Rape, Terminal illness, Drug use, Homophobia, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Cancer

acupoftea16's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

This book is a wonderful example of queer representation and coming of age. JVN inspires through their down-to-watch reflection of their past, and is extremely honest with readers from page one. I was hesitant to read/listen to this book, but I’m really glad I did. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Death, Child abuse, and Addiction

Minor: Suicidal thoughts