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abbie_'s review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Homophobia, and Sexual violence
ashar_allaire's review
2.0
It wasn't because of descriptiveness, it was about how nonchalantly it was played and how they gave it no weight or resolution. Like I walked away feeling so disappointed, the insight was almost there but instead it just put the problem in front of us like "well that's just the way it is." I don't feel sympathy or understanding or insight at that point, it just loses me.
I've also seen a lot of queer books treat this topic too nonchalantly, like a fact of life, and a part of gay culture which I'm just so sick of. Gay people are more likely to be traumatized, childhood trauma leads to abusive behavior, but it's just not portrayed as abuse so much as an inevitability, which to me is just absurd and extremely insensitive. This book gave it slightly more nuance than I've seen in the past but still not nearly enough.
It doesn't need to be cut because it's a very real thing that happens, and something that should be talked about, but a simple acknowledgement of how horrible it was would have been SOMETHING. He's 33 and doesn't seem to even take a second to consider it might be wrong and continues like it's no big deal even after being confronted about it, like what? He didn't seem to lose all sense of right and wrong from trauma, like he knows enough to condemn the people who did it to him. I don't know it just didn't work for me.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, and Grief
Moderate: Addiction
Minor: Drug abuse and Classism
beanwa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Sexual content
Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, and Sexual violence
sarah984's review against another edition
- 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
2.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent
Minor: Cancer, Incest, Racial slurs, Slavery, Police brutality, Car accident, and Pregnancy
tlaynejones's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
4.5
Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Suicide