Reviews tagging 'Lesbophobia'

Een klein leven by Hanya Yanagihara

48 reviews

racheldeng's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

such a good book. not as sad as i expected but it hurts especially in dear comrade and lispenard st II. honestly so so good, so graphic and violent and traumatic but made me feel something really true. it took a while for me to read it because it is very slow paced but still gripping and the book can be confusing but it’s worth it. you have to read this book but please check trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

mrsdalloway's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Outing, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Gore, Blood, Vomit, and Medical trauma

Minor: Child death and Lesbophobia

evapaton's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

OH MY GOD SIMULTANEOUSLY FAVOURITE AND LEAST FAVOURITE BOOK OF ALL TIME. it will break you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Lesbophobia

kbobe10's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

bethanmoran's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is the best book I have ever read in my life. I cried for hours, I don't think this book will ever truly leave me. I cannot give it less than five stars, I just can't.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Ableism, Death, and Blood

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Transphobia, Car accident, and Lesbophobia

boyterror's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

i put off reading this for so long because i knew it would hit hard, and it did. i physically gagged, almost threw up while reading this, so i don’t recommend that you read it if you have experienced any of the heavily triggering things mentioned in the trigger warnings for this book. i also wouldn’t recommend reading it if you lack critical reading skills, it probably isn’t for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Lesbophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Blood, Car accident, and Alcohol

ganseys's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Stalking, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

booksandboba's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

Reviews I’ve read everywhere talk about how much readers cried while reading this book. I didn’t cry at all. Does that make me heartless? I don’t know. It didn’t have as great of an emotional impact on me as I was expecting, although I think perhaps I numbed out from all of my personal triggers that were in the book. PLEASE READ THE TRIGGER/CONTENT WARNINGS. I didn’t and realized too late,, luckily I’m in a better mental state because this book would have been horrible for me otherwise.

I feel like I don’t know what I’m supposed to take away from this book. What did I learn?

It was far from inspiring… I suppose part of the point was to show just how great of an impact abuse has on a person, but it’s hard to read if you have any history of abuse or mental illness etc because it just makes you feel hopeless and like you will never get better.

 

I did appreciate the theme of friendship and relationships in the book, though. Some aspects of the book felt predictable.

Maybe you’d like the book, but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, of course because of all the content warnings, but also because I personally felt like I had wasted a month reading this book. I didn’t necessarily hate it nor did I hate it while reading, it just didn’t really leave me feeling any sort of satisfaction or like I learned something or have a greater understanding of anything.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Car accident and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol