Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

66 reviews

mads_reads_books's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Vomit

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Excrement, Lesbophobia, and Outing

alexayres47's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Vomit, and Religious bigotry

nad_books623's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

“It is painful the unraveling, but it leads you to you.”

This book would be 5 stars if the timeline wasn’t so confusing. I had to constantly go back or think about the timeline. Due to Elliot mentioning something where he’s 10 for example and then when he’s 33. If it was in chronological order I think it would be easier to piece together. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Mental illness and Misogyny

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Vomit, Stalking, and Pandemic/Epidemic

phouka's review

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual content, Transphobia, Stalking, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Car accident, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexism, Blood, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

stevia333k's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

4.25

The last 3rd was good, and i say this because the first 2 thirds were violent as hell. I had to learn that he was in a lot of action movies basically in order to handle it & i also could only listen 10 minutes at a time at triple speed. 

Anyways, after a while certain parts about being trans were like oh good my transfemme self isn't alone. 

The relationships though & the shadow work kinda went over my head because I'm aromantic but the workplace accident (because of how wreckless the directors were to black & queer lives) helped connect me to the kind of stuff he meant, so I am thankful he included workplace incidents like that.

Also the memoir isn't told as chronologically, so basically if you're taking notes then I recommend trying to make a character list sort of glossary since the time dimension doesn't sort them, but some segments are like public letters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

hellokira's review against another edition

adventurous

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Outing, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Bullying

lupinusrivularis's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

There are little pieces of me in this book now, pieces that I didn't know I would find and some that I've left behind.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

moliviabow's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

A heartwarming and personal journey! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

stevienotnicks's review against another edition

DNF’d at 67% through the audiobook. 

He focused way too much on graphic details of his sex life that was way too TMI…and an odd focus on shitting. 

I appreciated hearing his turmoil and struggle with identity, but I couldn’t get past the prose, which felt like he was trying to force something profound that just wasn’t there.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Blood

Minor: Deadnaming and Vomit

abicaro17's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

2.75

So the actual story is really compelling about heartbreaking but, like most memoirs I read, is jumbled and feels unfinished. This book would have benefited with a chronological order format or at least naming the year each story was in. Page uses ages as time markers and as someone who has no idea how old they are, it was confusing. Page also throws in lots of random info that doesn't contribute to the story, like info about landmarks or anecdotes about childhood musings. The parts of the story that felt relevant and composed, like Page's tumultuous relationship with their dad or growth in relationships, added reflection and complexity that's desperately needed in this book. I wish I liked this more because learning about Elliot Pages story was so engaging (plus I love them!) but, this book was a little too all over the place for my taste. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment