To let my 16 year old read this book?

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So my 16 year old dd is currently reading slash’s autobiography, I understand it includes everything he and Guns n’ Roses got up to, she keeps telling me all the in and outs of what she’s reading. She’s horrified as to what he got up to and how he is still alive today but finds the book so interesting, I don’t think it’s an inappropriate book to read, she’s nearly 17.

Yesterday my sister and mum came over for my youngest dd birthday, and my dd told her what book she’s reading. Today I received a text from my mum saying how her and my sister think it’s disgusting that I’m letting her read the book, I have no control, I’m allowing her to know about the ‘dark world’, and that I’m encouraging her to do drugs? I haven’t replied as I’m baffled as to why she’s reacted so badly. I know it’s a book that explicitly tells you what he did and that it isn’t exactly nice but she’s old enough to know that’s wrong, do I need to seriously stop her from reading it? Or is my mum overreacting?

As well as all that others have said, please consider how your controlling mother has affected your life. You probably won't have been aware of it. It's a tough realisation.

I wish you much love and healing xxx

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I only had one book taken off me by my parents, I was about 15 and it was a truly filthy pornographic book that somebody had left behind at a campsite. I'd have forgotten the book long ago if my Dad hadn't confiscated it as unsuitable. The look on his face a few days later when I asked if he'd enjoyed it as much as I had was priceless