Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi

25 reviews

adamderb's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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zanm's review against another edition

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medium-paced

4.25

Audiobook was phenomenal due to the talents of the cast, really sucked me into the story.
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Content of book itself: pretty good :) as a gay dude learning italian…I felt very seen. Really a sweet story and I was generally invested in the story. Good characters, medium pace, and realistic stakes.
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Critiques-
One thing that felt like it would come up later but never did was
the illegal wikipedia junk. I was waiting for repercussions.

Also, the ending didn’t feel very fleshed out compared to the rest of the book. We spent all this time building up this story and then it fizzles out… I suppose that can be true to life but I’d prefer a clearer ending (though
the voicemail
was a great final note)
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Overall solid, would read more from the author.
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dean196717's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted 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

3.5

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mformato's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective tense 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

4.0

 A very charming coming of age/coming out story. Read it in just a few hours as it kept me invested the whole time wondering how the twists and turns of the story was going to go. I liked the format of the story, though I wish Amir's family's interviews were explored a bit more (but I understand this was his story so it makes sense why it focused mainly on him). I didn't give it five stars because everything seemed a bit too perfect with how nicely all the events unfolded for Amir and how all the loose ends wrapped up; but in my limited knowledge of LBGT+ books I am aware that most of them aren't as nice and fluffy so I can understand wanting a story that just ends positively.

Would recommend this story to anyone who wants an exciting coming of age story. 
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madamenovelist's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful fast-paced
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  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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bootrat's review against another edition

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emotional funny 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? Yes

3.5

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ophycore's review

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emotional funny 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

4.0

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srkubin717's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted 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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rayne_1906's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful lighthearted 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

3.25

Audiobook - 3 hours - This book was enjoyable enough, but I can't help but feel a lot of it was unnecessary. There was too much 'filler' for me, as a lot of the parts describing his time in Rome just felt there for the sake of it, and didn't further the plot, or my understanding of the characters at all. I also thought the parts in the interrogation room felt incredibly unrealistic - there's no way anyone would speak that way to someone questioning them, especially not when they'd been targeted based on islamophobia. Overall, I suppose I felt this book felt conflicted between trying to be serious and trying to be lighthearted and fun, and fell awkwardly in the middle instead. That being said, as a light read, it held my attention well enough, and was a decent read.
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onyxisalive's review

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adventurous challenging emotional 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

3.75

I really enjoyed this book, it was ana amazing read- I really connected with the main character of this book and following along on his journey was emotional. The main reason It isn’t four stars is due to the writing of the
interrogation scenes
it wasn’t my favourite, but the rest of it was really emotional and a lovely read 
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