Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

92 reviews

robin_reads's review

dark mysterious

2.75

This started as one thing and ended as a completely other thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gaslighting

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Bullying

startjpw23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Mars and Caroline are twins. Their mother is a New York senator. When they were younger, they both attended a summer camp called Aspen Conservancy. The camp is mostly for children of the rich and powerful. The exact location isn't given. It is a very forested area. Probably upstate New York. An incident happened to Mars that caused him to stop going to the camp. Caroline continued to go. Their ages at the present time of the book weren't given. They were probably around 16. In the present time, Caroline goes missing from the camp. A short time later, she comes back to Mar's parents' house and dies under strange circumstances. At Caroline's funeral, 3 members of Caroline's cabin at the camp do something strange. The cabin is called Cabin H. The girls who camp there are called the Honey's. Each cabin in the camp has to have a main function. The girls raise bees. Mars want to go back to the camp to try to figure what happened with his sister. He does go back to camp. The remainder of the book deals with his attempts to figure out what happened to Caroline. There are a lot of tense moments. There are many scary situations. There were a couple of twists towards the end that I didn't see coming. I loved the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Death, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, and Homophobia

Moderate: Death of parent

adelinebal4's review

dark inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Bullying

Moderate: Violence, Dysphoria, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Minor: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

loscamp4lyf's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia

abitbetterbooks's review

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

4.5

Literally what the fuck.

This was an absolutely wild ride and I loved every minute of it. There was so many twists and turns and gorgeous writing with raw emotion, I tore through this in less than 24 hours. An absolutely perfect book for the cottage at the end of the summer. This book was a fascinating way to dive into the concepts of grief and death, while also exploring gender, misogyny, complicated social dynamics, and the simultaneous exploitation and disdain of young women and girls. 

Outside of the story, the aesthetic design of this book was absolutely flawless. The cover is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen, and the honeycomb embossed endpapers are stunning. But I also loved the choices of the melting chapter titles (which matched the same warping of the title on the cover) as the book progresses and the story becomes more convoluted, as well as the multiplying flowers on the title page for each new part of the book. Even the margins on the edge of the page are small, which makes you just feel like something is slightly off while reading; I don’t know if this choice was deliberate but if it was, it was absolutely ingenious. 

I will definitely be reading more from LaSala in the future! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Misogyny, and Body horror

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

cactuspunk's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

This book is incredible. The world building and atmosphere built this extremely realistic and believable story. Every time the story seems to settle into a simple camp drama, something shocking happens, constantly keeping you on your toes. The combination of simple YA camp drama and a horrific supernatural mystery surprisingly works together to create a thrilling and interesting story. I appreciated the use of Mar's gender, neither being his whole character but also not an ignorable detail. Overall, I really enjoyed this story and highly recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Homophobia

Moderate: Bullying

wyabook234's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Sexism, and Homophobia

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Kidnapping, Body shaming, and Child death

kh_xion's review

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Child death, Bullying, Body horror, Child abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Cannibalism, Death, Grief, and Transphobia

Moderate: Cancer, Dysphoria, and Fire/Fire injury

ieemee's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I really loved this book - reading it with the use of the Alphabet book box subscription only made its creepier as I opened items that matched the book. I don’t think il look at bees or camp the same again 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Homophobia

fjalar's review

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Homophobia, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Terminal illness