Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Ziggy, Stardust and Me by James Brandon

7 reviews

asmodeous's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, Police brutality, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, and Emotional abuse

modernmatilda's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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? No

4.0

Wow, this book. I picked it up on a whim after seeing it on Novel Neighbors bookstagram page. Read the first four pages in the store and couldn't leave without it. 

It took me a minute to get past the over use of 60s slang, but when I got into the emotional scenes with Web and Johnathan, I wouldn't escape the book's pull. I just wanted Web and Johnathan to be happy!!! 

This book made me cry, a lot. I felt big emotions while reading it. There were also scenes that felt just like a David Bowie song. 

I really, really loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Antisemitism, Alcoholism, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Alcohol, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death of parent, Drug use, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Violence

cbess's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

1. they’re right david bowie is god
2. ouch
was this the most well-written, masterful book i have ever read? no-it read pretty much like fan fiction. but by god, it made me Feel Something. like crawl out of my skin eat my heart raw feel something.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism

miserablemoons's review against another edition

5.0

I couldn't put this book down, the characters were written and opened my eyes to the things I need to see in myself and that I'm not a burden and j don't have to change. 
please r as the content warnings though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Racism, Mental illness, Police brutality, Pedophilia, Grief, Homophobia, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Alcohol, Colonisation, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Rape

foreverinastory's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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? Yes

4.0

This was so good but ow my heart.

Rep: white gay male MC, Native American (Oglala Lakota Nation) gay male love interest, Black biracial cishet female side character, a couple Native American (Oglala Lakota Nation) side characters.

CWs: bullying, homomisia/homophobia, racism, alcoholism, addiction, attempted sexual assault, racial slurs, violence, xenophobia, medical trauma, electroshock therapy, conversion therapy, hate crime, past mentions of police brutality and murder, death of parent, alcohol consumption, drug use, torture, child abuse. Moderate: consensual sexual content, pedophilia, colonisation, emotional abuse, misogyny, transmisia/transphobia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Drug use, Violence, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Police brutality, Murder, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Bullying, Xenophobia, Medical content, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Torture, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Pedophilia, Colonisation, Misogyny, Transphobia, and Emotional abuse

andrealeeeigh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Medical content, Mental illness, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Torture, and Violence

ollieshark's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

at first i was unsure of how i'd feel about this novel because of how eccentric johnathan's voice is, but i'm so glad i stuck with it. i have a feeling this one will put me in a funk afterwards because it has so much heavy subject matter, but it's such an important read to understand how unaccepted gay men and native american peoples were even just in the 1970s.

the only thing i wish had been done differently or changed is that content warnings should probably be provided somewhere before chapter one starts. i had no idea what i was going into and i think my thoughts on the novel suffer a little as a result of being bombarded with johnathans's "treatments."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, and Bullying

Minor: Medical content, Pedophilia, Police brutality, and Vomit

electroshock conversion therapy and its side effects are often mentioned, and a scene in which the main character endures an electroshock treatment is shown. lgbt+/gay slurs also show up on the page.