Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

31 reviews

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Outing, Hate crime, Grief, Abandonment, Classism, Death, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Alcohol, Blood, Colonisation, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Deportation, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Racism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Mental illness, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, War, Medical content, Violence, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Miscarriage, and Infertility

readinghavoc's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective tense fast-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

4.5

I really loved this book and was so inspired by Lily’s story. It was really interesting to experience the time period more intimately from her point of view.

Spoiler

My only hesitation about this book is the ending. It wasn’t bad, but I feel like the rest of the book had these really lovely and encouraging moments of queer joy, and the ending kind of felt defeated in comparison even though it was a relatively happy ending for the period. It’s realistic and I appreciate that, but also, I think I’m sad and tired of reading books where the gay people don’t get to be happy in the end. I would have loved to see her and Kath in their own apartment in that epilogue or spend more time with them and their letters  rather than being left off with the idea that maybe Lily and Katy can stay together in the closet. I get that the happy ending is also that she gets to keep her family but I don’t know, after how palpably miserable she is in the chapters once her family knows, I have a hard time swallowing that. Like I said, this also might just be about where I am with my feelings about queer content generally right now.  

Overall though, I’m so glad I read this, and want to give that ending a reread for sure! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Homophobia and Violence

Minor: Deportation and Police brutality

knockoffrainbow's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Alcohol, Biphobia, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Classism, Gaslighting, Racism, Hate crime, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: War, Abortion, Deportation, and Alcohol

dragon_lord's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Racism

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, Outing, Toxic friendship, War, Abandonment, Violence, and Death

Minor: Drug use, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Excrement, and Pregnancy

queerghstbuster's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense medium-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Vomit and Violence

arrowsartsandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Racism

Moderate: Deportation, Outing, and Hate crime

Minor: Police brutality, Toxic friendship, Violence, and War

smithreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense 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: Outing, Racism, Alcohol, Sexual content, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, and Deportation

Minor: Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, War, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

indeedithappens's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Outing, Homophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Xenophobia, Deportation, Drug use, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Bullying, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Colonisation, Violence, and War

thebookpaiges's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Violence, War, Police brutality, and Racism

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Outing

thekatreturns's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.25

This was so lovely! Lily is a wonderful protagonist and her story is a beautifully written and very necessary addition to the lesbian YA canon. As a butch, I appreciated the portrayal of desire for butches; that’s extremely rare and it was very heartwarming here. This isn’t all romance, and the non-romance sections were really what made Lily jump off the page to me. My biggest issue is that there was so little information about what happened between the ending and the epilogue, when it could have been structured in a way that didn’t feel so rushed.

Spoiler

For example, some letters between Lily and Kath during the time when they were living apart would have been lovely.

I really appreciated the level of detail in the worldbuilding. It was meticulously researched and feels very real. I would heartily recommend this to any YA LGBTQ books fan! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Deportation, and Violence