sapphotoni's review
5.0
Graphic: Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Domestic abuse
verysillygoose's review
5.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Rape
jayreadsthings's review
4.0
Graphic: Gaslighting, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts
cassidyzang's review
5.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Physical abuse
angievansprang's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Homophobia, and Sexual assault
Minor: Mental illness, Car accident, Alcohol, and Fire/Fire injury
swordjaw's review
5.0
God. It's Machado's memoir of being in an abusive queer relationship. Each chapter is stylized or themed after a named topic; it worked for me because it was great framing for the (usually upsetting) content.
A later cluster of chapters lives rent-free in my head still.
Spoiler
The Choose Your Own Adventure section? Oh my God. What a great use of form. It really hammered home how 1. bleak the relationship was by then 2. how repetitive the abuse was 3. how inescapable the abuse was (all of the page choices making you go back to the start of the day or a time of the day!!) 4. the extra meta chastisement from Machado if you just read the pages through straight, goddamn ("not following the CYOA rules doesn't mean you can escape that this happened").Graphic: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Rape
mecmccann's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Bullying, Biphobia, Fatphobia, Grief, Rape, Lesbophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
literally_mint's review
5.0
Graphic: Cursing, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Minor: Biphobia, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Cancer, Abandonment, Vomit, Alcohol, Rape, Dementia, Hate crime, and Fatphobia
edgaranjapoe's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Dysphoria, Sexual assault, Confinement, Grief, Homophobia, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Rape
Minor: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Animal death, Car accident, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Eating disorder, Vomit, Murder, and Medical content
chaotic_bibliophile's review
4.75
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Bullying, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence