Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

9 reviews

jessawilson's review against another edition

I thought the series would get better with the themes but I could tell that fat phobia, diet culture, beauty culture, and misogyny were going to continue. Then I had to stop when the author thought it was okay to introduce transphobic themes with making a previous male character be changed back to a woman when princes were made evil. Fuck that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Toxic friendship

ieahleen's review against another edition

1.0

The book is written well, it kept me glued to the pages until the end. 

It's just full of misogyny, misandrism, homophobia, fatphobia... I am absolutely not continuing with this series, I can't stand anything in it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Pedophilia

tinkithesquirelll's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexism, Violence, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and War

neko_reads's review against another edition

dnf. i just could not put myself through this, and its kinda sad because I kinda wanted to like it since I used to but no. just no
this book just takes everything the first book worked for (not much) and killed it. the lgbtish relationship? NO we just couldn't be happy with that, there has to be some boy involved
this book just shows the weirdest sexism reversed, homophobic, tasteless book. so the main characters have no character anymore. sophies character is dead, shes just quiet and agatha is TERRIBLE. now her entire world is tedros. Tedros has no character, its terrible.
also the quote "whats a boy? someone who wishes for a girl. whats a girl? someone who wishes for a boy. whats someone who kissed a girl? DEFINITELY A BOY" homophobia if I've ever seen it.
anyway ill shut up about how much I hate this now like IT IS THAT BAD

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Death of parent

lakinglaze's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I wanted to really like this book and it had a lot of potential, but I didn’t love it. There are just too many problems, the plot development is lacking, and everything just felt flat and under developed. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

ashleylowry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

rumireads's review against another edition

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Bullying

squinnittowinit's review against another edition

Very transphobic/queerphobic.

Also the characters learned nothing during the first book and haven't grown at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Toxic friendship

sge_ab's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia and Toxic friendship