Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko

25 reviews

ceeshay's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment

Minor: Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Outing, and Toxic friendship

zoopalsfanaccount's review against another edition

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

3.0

I really wanted to like this book more than I did but I just found so many of the relationships to be so unhealthy and not fully addressed as such :( 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Violence and Abandonment

Minor: Vomit, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Classism

susanpevensie's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide

33vee's review against another edition

emotional sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Suicide, Death of parent, and Outing

keraashley's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

3.0

Main love interest is kind of insufferable and I really wanted this to be light hearted and easy and happy, because girls like girls and it’s fine!! But no, Hayley made this plot so tough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

peggymay's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abortion

britt_zonnebloempit's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

2.5

I wanted to love this more. I truly do. The Girls Like Girls video was my life! But this was so so so toxic. There's so much alcohol and drug abuse, it's not even funny.

I truly think that beating Trenton up was a bad choice. Coley truly was a good girl, despite her past, but she stooped to Trenton's level and I felt like a disappointed parent upon reading it. Both Sonya and Blake were bad for her, only getting her into bad situations, and though I understand her rebound moment with Blake I definitely don't understand her getting with Sonya...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Physical abuse, Violence, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

courto875's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Child abuse and Fire/Fire injury

logikitty's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

I think for a debut novel, it wasn't shabby. I got a bit annoyed with the general style of the super short sentences and random 'poetics' that showed up - it felt real cringey NGL. I do understand the teenage romance and the lesbophobia aspects of it, so I can't fault the characters for not standing up for their relationship and there being a lot of back and forth. In fact, Kiyoko made that part hella accurate, so props to having developmentally approriate characters. I think I just didn't resonate with the trajectory of the plot as most of it just felt like disconnected hangouts to create a theme and conflict. The cute throwbacks were great tho! The flip phones, LiveJournal, and AIM had young me squealing!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicide and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

nightworldlove's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Really enjoyed the book, different than what I expected, but not necessarily in a bad way! It's not easy to make people feel so strongly about a, or multiple, characters. Loved the several references to different songs of Hayley Kiyoko, was a nice touch!

I've laughed, felt anxious, sad and outraged; definitely an emotional rollercoaster, so be prepared for that!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Violence and Vomit