Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby

6 reviews

uranaishi's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death of parent, Excrement, Physical abuse, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Ableism, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Classism, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Grief, Homophobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Dysphoria, Drug abuse, Racism, Body horror, Pregnancy, and Blood

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

4.5

A very fun read that should be done with headphones in. Ms. Irby is such a fun writer, and I'll be reading more of her books in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Excrement, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Animal death, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Infertility

Minor: Vomit and Animal cruelty

ladythana's review

dark emotional funny medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Child abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

Minor: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Infertility, Racism, Grief, Medical content, and Lesbophobia

bitterseason's review

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Violence, Vomit, Racism, Suicide attempt, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Grief, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment

cheesy_gordita_grack's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

I can't remember the last time I read a book that was so sad and so funny. As we slowly emerge on the other end of the global pandemic, the word "resilience" gets thrown around a lot, but that's the word I kept thinking of as I read this book. Irby has SEEN some shit, man. And she has a lot of trauma and mental health issues and quirks because of what she's been through—but she's still out there, trying to exist in the world, being funny as hell and living and loving. And I just really needed to read a book about that struggle, because it's one that me and a lot of other people are going through right now. It was important to see that you can be OK after everything.

Some parts resonated with me more than others, but the parts that did . . . I'm not likely to forget. Especially the sections on Irby's dad, or the one (I can't remember the chapter title now) where she talks about how she learned early on that love = chaos and pain and pining.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Toxic relationship

stayshomeandreads's review

challenging emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Racism, Racial slurs, and Physical abuse