Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, by Hank Green

11 reviews

arlingtonchamberofgay's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Kidnapping, Biphobia, Outing, and Violence

rory_john14's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Biphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Toxic friendship, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Xenophobia, Hate crime, Racism, and Outing

Minor: Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Sexism, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Mental illness

laziceva_kala's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-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

5.0

Loved everything about this book, main character is the love to hate type, very flawed but aware of it. The story is engaging and very fun to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Bullying

chris_reads's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, and Stalking

Minor: Biphobia and Medical content

readandfindout's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

Style/writing: 3 stars
Themes: 5 stars
Characters: 2.5 stars
Plot: 4.5 stars
Worldbuilding: 3.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Murder, Body horror, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Moderate: Kidnapping, Outing, Biphobia, Gun violence, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

mrswhiteinthelibrary's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-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

4.0

Hank Green managed to write a spot-on satire of the Covid-19 pandemic several years before it happened, pinpointing the source of our intense division and the misery of being more connected than ever but ever more alone... And he did it without it being a pretentious slog, in a book with mechas, puzzles, and a true sense of wonder. While some aspects of it may grate (the sometimes overly twee dialogue that his brother also seems to love to employ) his use of specific details and his deeply flawed heroine keep this book grounded and the pages fly by. Bravo all around.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Death, Cursing, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death

Minor: Xenophobia and Homophobia

Hank Green managed to write a spot-on satire of the Covid-19 pandemic several years before it happened, pinpointing the source of our intense division and the misery of being more connected than ever but ever more alone... And he did it without it being a pretentious slog, in a book with mechas, puzzles, and a true sense of wonder. While some aspects of it may grate (the sometimes overly twee dialogue that his brother also seems to love to employ) his use of specific details and his deeply flawed heroine keep this book grounded and the pages fly by. Bravo all around.

libbyhb's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful informative mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I knew vaguely what this was about, but it was definitely not what I expected! I liked how much of this story was centered on internet community-building and the power of the collective, since that's been Hank Green's life these past 14-ish years at least. This was hard to get into at first, just because it throws you into a really frantic-paced story right out the gate, but once I got used to that I really enjoyed it. April is a fun protagonist, and I liked that she was so explicitly focused on being famous, on being The One who did everything first - and how the story unfolded to prove that that wasn't the way. The review question "Are the flaws of the main characters a main focus of the book?" made me laugh becuase, yes. They're OUT THERE. The Dream was maybe my favorite part - it was so cool and well-conceived and I could really feel the Hank in it. I'm looking forward to the next book, although I wouldn't have even minded if this was a standalone, even with how it ended.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Biphobia

mxfahrenheit's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Gore, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Biphobia, Bullying, Death, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

eamily's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Kidnapping, Grief, Outing, Medical content, Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Gore, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Xenophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Police brutality, Cursing, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Confinement

Minor: Bullying, Infidelity, Sexual content, Classism, and Excrement

kellys_bookcase's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring lighthearted mysterious

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Gun violence, and Xenophobia