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caseythereader's Reviews (1.84k)
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Gore, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Drug use
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Blood, Kidnapping
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Pregnancy
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
- It’s about magic and class and power and secrets and love, and I tore right through it.
- I’d say this book is closer to the YA end of the scale of books in terms of character building. It’s more about the vibes and emotions than deep world building or complex character growth.
- We love not only sapphic yearning, but hints at poly yearning! Book two, please!
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Infidelity, Sexual content, Excrement, Antisemitism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Classism
- Hylton draws a straight line through slavery to institutionalization to industrial prisons, and the collective mental health of Black Americans throughout the decades.
- It is really incredible what Hylton has unearthed here, amplifying the work locals have done to ensure that those who lived and died at Crownsville are not forgotten.
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, Classism
- It’s surprisingly (not so surprisingly) hard to find an addiction and recovery memoir that isn’t written by a white person, and FIRST IN THE FAMILY gets into the many reasons why that is.
- Hoppe blends memoir with facts and figures about how addiction was treated in her family and among people of color more broadly; specifically, how BIPOC experiences are purposefully erased from the mainstream frameworks of recovery.
- Hoppe reads the audiobook, and is such an engrossing and emotive narrator.
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Rape, Alcohol, Colonisation
Moderate: Child abuse