Reviews tagging 'Lesbophobia'

Exalted by Anna Dorn

10 reviews

mtrics's review

dark funny slow-paced

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

3.5

How can this be so bad but also one of the best things I've ever read?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Stalking, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Sexual content and Suicidal thoughts

dizzzybrook's review

dark funny fast-paced

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

2.0

10 hours of brainrot just for incest to be the plot twist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia

Moderate: Incest

orangewitchling's review

dark funny slow-paced

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

2.5

It’s surprisingly funny, but the characters are incredibly annoying and to top it off I heard the audiobook and I cringed with every word. It was a bit too slow for me so I skipped the whole second part lol, but the first and last part were entertaining enough. Overall, not my kind of book but the plot was so unhinged that I had to finish it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Lesbophobia, and Toxic friendship

etbliss's review against another edition

funny fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Lesbophobia

man_duh's review

lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.0

Lighthearted occasionally fun read. Astrology is fun and this book takes lots of jabs to prove that that's all it really is. I usually love reading about flawed characters but Emily and Dawn leaned far too into cartoon villain characteristics to be taken as anything but. Cinnamon was the true star of the book. 

Author left enough clues about the plot twist so the anticipation of the characters finding out was perfectly anxiety-inducing. 

Enjoyable even through the Libra slander but a word of caution to avoid the Audiobook version at all costs! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Homophobia, Incest, and Lesbophobia

donnamira's review

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny and Lesbophobia

evelovesreading's review

the homophobia, sexism and hate in general is just too much 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Lesbophobia

buckupcamper's review against another edition

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

0.25

this book is terrible. it's such horrible writing. i'm not completely unconvinced this is just a polished version of a bot-composed novel--an AI that was solely fed social media exchanges from millennials and garbage reality television. and the narration--egads!! it was the worst. bot-like as well. 
the frequent support for elon musk and roman polanski was an odd choice. the characters were all insufferable (with the exception of cinnamon).
just ...yikes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Mental illness and Sexism

night_shift's review

challenging funny fast-paced

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

3.0

The main characters were awful lol but this was a lot of fun. I had a funny thought as to where it was going really early on and was right 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Incest, Infidelity, and Lesbophobia

viktorreads's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

A book about truly dreadful people. While I did give it a low rating, admittedly at times it was hard to put down as I wanted to see where exactly the story was going to go. Dorn does do a fantastic job at creating unlikeable characters. However Dawn’s switch to repenting mother felt like it came out of no where while I was reading. (Though at the end there’s an implication that she truly has not changed her ways.) My low rating is mostly for the Elon Musk glorification and the weird sudden switching Dawn does from abusive mother to “oh I feel so bad.” It seemed very out of character for her after she spent the entire book being an awful person. (I guess that’s one way to act after your son tells you he slept with his long lost sister. But I would have liked to see her reflect a tiny bit more.) Also Emily suddenly getting a huge book deal seemed unrealistic. (As someone who has tried to get published. Then again, I’ve never had a famous Instagram and an article of mine go viral!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Suicidal thoughts