Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko

34 reviews

alex1's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad tense fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Death of parent, Homophobia, Violence, and Suicide

ahopper7's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.0

This book reads like an independent queer film, and I’m here for it. It also was basically a combination of Kiyoko’s songs like Girls like Girls, Curious, Sleepover, and What I Need. Again, here for it.

Overall, it was a coming of age story for queer teens, one learning to love herself and accept love after trauma, and one learning love and accept herself because of internalized homophobia. Both of these girls exists in our queer community, I was one of these girls. I do think this needed a little more editing help, but I enjoyed the book, even as an adult outside of the market age, and I think it’s an important story to have out there. Kudos to Kiyoko for expanding her music into a debut novel!

Also, I highly recommend the audiobook. It has a full cast, is well produced, and the main character is voiced by Kiyoko. Definitely made the reading experience more enjoyable for me!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Grief, and Homophobia

micaelacccc's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug use, Suicide, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Violence, and Homophobia

Minor: Abortion

pensandpicks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia and Grief

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent

taylorsevalia's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

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

4.75

Loved the small town vibes and coming of age queer story! This year, I started to gravitate more towards audiobooks after it took me years to find the kind of audiobooks I like. I’m happy to say I decided to listen to the audiobook first because this is the best one I’ve read! I need Hayley Kiyoko to narrate all the books from now on and for me to read more books that tell stories as atmospherically as this one did! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Drug use, Violence, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Death of parent, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Outing, Cursing, Car accident, and Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy, Blood, Classism, and Abortion

ceeshay's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, and Homophobia

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Vomit, Outing, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

nicoles_reading_corner's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Lesbophobia, Violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Drug use, and Death of parent

susanpevensie's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Alcohol, Homophobia, and Grief

Minor: Suicide

leahfoko's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Wow this book was amazing. I spent half the book wanting to murder Trenton and the other half crying lowkey. Part of what I loved about this book is yes it’s a romance, but more than that it’s a story of self discovery, personal growth, self love, acceptance, grief, loss, how to heal a relationship that you think is irreparably broken. It’s a book about the way that heartache and joy coexist in life. It was so well written and the story that Hayley weaves is so intricate and raw and real. I highly recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide attempt and Suicide

vespera's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Grief, Alcohol, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Suicidal thoughts