Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

184 reviews

kimchisam1119's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, and Outing

Moderate: Child abuse and Deadnaming

megj23's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, and Transphobia

fatfrog's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

Minor: Drug use

eamador's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual harassment

mc1945's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

What an absolutely heartbreaking and beautifully raw book. I'm so glad that I listed to the audio version and heard his story in his own words.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

writewithapendragon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is hard and raw and sensational. Plenty of content warnings but truly an insightful and amazing autobiography. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Vomit, and Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Deadnaming, Drug use, Eating disorder, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Medical content, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

sammy357's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

Loved this book! I listened to the audiobook and it was great. Love when the author does the audiobook too.
Like others have mentioned, the timeline was hard for me to follow at times, especially when listening to the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Drug use, Misogyny, Self harm, and Alcohol

Minor: Death

lupetuple's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

2.75

My man Elliot Page needed a better editor... I suspect his intention was to capture the nonlinear experience of being transgender, considering his allusion to it in the introduction, but he failed the execution, because the memoir comes off haphazardly slapped together, like an attempt to make sense of his past in the form of a published work, and thus doesn't truly cohere. I related to his experience quite a bit, but a lack of direction and flow frustrated me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Stalking, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment

daisymoffit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

Extremely well written, Elliot has a talent when it comes to describing things that feel wordless. A brave telling of a tumultuous life

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

railynski's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Transphobia

Moderate: Child abuse and Self harm