Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith

5 reviews

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

challenging fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

use of f slur

maxmaxmax's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Outing, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

bike's review against another edition

challenging dark sad

Was hoping for a cute romance. Then realized the characters were more flawed than I expected and was looking forward to their growth. Then

Pony was assaulted and then suddenly the rest of the school was very accepting 

and both felt very abrupt and didn’t feel to me like they matched the tone of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime and Transphobia

Moderate: Child abuse and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexism

eeriewater'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? Yes

4.5

I entered into reading this book prepared for it to be a decent read but not anything special. Fair to say it exceeded my expectations. The dual POV made me connect with, and understand the characters reasonings, even when I disagreed with their decisions.
In my opinion stay gold had the perfect balance of angst, love and wholesomeness. 
The only thing I kind of disliked in this book is more about my personal preference and less about it actually being a bad thing. I did feel like this book, which is about a trans man, was mainly written for cishet people with little to none experience with LGBTQ+ people. At times the description of gender dysphoria, surgeries and other trans issues felt a bit too educational for my taste, but for someone who aren't educated on these topics before reading the book, this can be a positive thing.

LGBTQ+ rep: FtM main character, FtM side character (minor), other minor characters of varying sexualities and gender identities

I'm going to miss Pony a lot now that the book is over, and I truly wish there'd be a sequel where we could see him getting the money necessary for his top surgery and actually going through with it. I'd also love to see how Georgia slowly but surely becomes more comfortable being herself

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

Minor: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment

One scene towards the end of the book where the ftm transgender mc is attacked in a bathroom, his attackers remove his binder, leaving him exposed

xoodlebooks's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Infidelity, Sexism, Medical content, and Grief

Disordered eating patterns