Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

540 reviews

elanuruysal's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, War, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Cancer, Addiction, and Car accident

natafiguu's review

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring relaxing 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

5.0

such an amazing read. touches topics like masculinity, internalized and external homophobia, racism, death, it's just an amazing book and you should definitely read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Abortion, War, Animal death, Cancer, Violence, Sexual content, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Racism, and Drug use

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Deportation and Pregnancy

gillian_aftanas's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Abortion, Bullying, Cancer, Grief, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Mental illness, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racism, War, Homophobia, Death, and Sexual content

softbooknerd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

Ocean Vuong has won poetry I guess. His writing style is extraordinarily beautiful and poetic. 
It gave me the urge to think the way he writes.

One tiny critique is that sometimes it was TOO poetic for me. It made it very difficult to understand what this or that sentence was supposed to express.

It also gave me like an idea of how growing up in a white world as a poc is (not to say like omg i know now how racism feels, I will never know how it feels)

This was a deeply touching and thought provoking experience!!
Tbh I don't know what else to say but his writing style truly inspired me!

Have you read anything by Ocean Vuong? I also recommend checking out "Night Sky With Exit Wounds" by him!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Violence, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Drug use, War, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

pseudolain's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Abortion, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, and War

Moderate: Terminal illness, Bullying, Alcohol, Blood, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Hate crime, and Misogyny

melis_salome's review

emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: War, Homophobia, and Domestic abuse

naiu_cs's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: War, Violence, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Racism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Abortion, Death, Cancer, Child abuse, Bullying, Homophobia, Child death, and Blood

moonpeach's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Abortion, and Domestic abuse

nlammata's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Racial slurs, and Child abuse

hannakutlu's review

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Domestic abuse, Grief, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Abortion, Addiction, and War