Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

14 reviews

amberinpieces's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Medical content, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, and Bullying

Minor: Outing, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Blood, Deportation, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

ladyinverse's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-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

absolute banger of a book. I'm so glad I finally decided to read it for sapphic September and I'm mad at myself for taking so long to have read it.

this was an amazing coming of age, romantic sapphic love story of finding you should not be ashamed of who you are and who you love. those that matter don't mind, and those that mind don't matter. 

tu eres mí otro yo 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Deportation, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

meheehee's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative 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? Yes

5.0

It made me punch my mattress but also smile and blush and gasp, and I loved it so much :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Cursing, Deportation, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, and Cursing

Minor: Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Vomit, Grief, and Blood

jessicamdawn's review against another edition

emotional funny 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Grief, Cursing, Deportation, and Bullying

tey_lynn's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Hate crime, Bullying, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Grief, Homophobia, Outing, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Abortion, Deportation, Lesbophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Sexism, and Toxic friendship

emily_mh'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? No

5.0

I don’t really feel capable of giving a proper, detailed review of this book because I am simply in awe of it. Just know that it is a perfect book about queerness, lesbians pining for each other, a gorgeous sibling relationship, celebrating every part of who you are, complicated families, mental health, the trauma of religious bigotry, being Brown and queer in a majority allocishet white space, forced separation from family, relearning to trust, rebonding with loved ones, simple and massive moments of joy, and ultimately, hope. I loved reading every second of it. 

My favourite quote was: “I can’t make him love himself. The closest I can get is loving myself unapologetically right in front of him.” 

Rep: lesbian Chicana MC, lesbian Chinese-American LI, bisexual Chicano SC, Native American (Navajo) SC, queer Black SC 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and Racism

Moderate: Deportation, Vomit, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Outing, Xenophobia, Police brutality, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Violence, Grief, Bullying, Sexual content, Blood, Cursing, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, and Abortion

Moderate: forced separation from family, disownment, suicidal ideation Minor: loss of a loved one, colourism, one use of the Spanish homophobic m-slur, one use of the lesbophobic d-slur

alex1's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Biphobia, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Suicidal thoughts

amibo's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Outing, and Grief

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Deportation, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racism and Cultural appropriation

kaynova's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad 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

4.0

I hate saying goodbye to these characters because I connected with every single one of them, from Yami to Bo to Cesar to Jamal, they all mean so much to me and at the end, I felt like I was giving them a big hug and saying, 'it's going to continue to be okay'. The author made such lovable, flawed characters where you want to be there for every single one of them (except the father, you know what you did). Each queer character here can speak to a queer adult/teenager who has went through the same experiences, thoughts, or feelings. A lot of the times I resonated with Bo, but then it'll switch and I felt like I saw a lot of myself in Cesar. You get involved with the characters and their support systems and you only want them to be happy. Spoiler, there's going to be moments of sadness and hurt because this is a BIPOC book of coming out especially with religion involved (which was also great involvement on the author's end) and you're going to stop for a moment to tear up, especially if you're a queer BIPOC person as well. This story will always be within me and I can't wait to find myself rereading these characters and feeling all those emotions again.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Outing, Lesbophobia, Bullying, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Grief and Deportation

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

this was really cute and wholesome. it was very cheesy but in a good way. this is one of the only YA books i can handle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Bullying, Homophobia, Classism, Grief, Deportation, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts