Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

If This Gets Out by Cale Dietrich, Sophie Gonzales

15 reviews

caitlin_123a's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, and Alcohol

jennifer_bush_73's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

3.5

Objectively, it’s a good book. And Ii enjoyed listening to it. For me, this book was more serious than what I was looking for. The toxic mother and managers not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Outing, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

linnea1801's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted 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

4.5

I think I’ve seen this film before… (*whispers one direction*)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Gaslighting

laracroft2001's review against another edition

emotional funny sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Homophobia, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Medical content

teatales's review against another edition

emotional hopeful

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

It was okay. Honestly found it hard to differentiate between the two leads, dunno if that's because I had a slight break in reading it from when I started it. Still prefer others from this genre - IWBFT and Kiss & Tell 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Drug use and Car accident

nitya_a's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia

btwnprintedpgs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Toxic work environment

jfield351's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

3.75

This was a very lovely book! Very real and interesting insight into the pressures and hardships of celebrity life. It was a beautiful love story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Biphobia, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Grief, Outing, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, and Car accident

beca_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

 I forgot how much I loved reading about famous bands, and the implications of fame. We follow Ruben and Zach who are both apart of the biggest boyband in the world "Saturday". Ruben is gay and is out to his friends and family, but the record label won't let him come out to the world in fear of backlash. Meanwhile Zach starts to explore his sexuality and realises he is bisexual. Zach and Ruben enter a relationship that to begin with is supported by their record label, but it slowly becomes clear that they will try to keep Ruben and Zach silent for as long as possible. This book explores the pressures of the media, and the dark side of the music industry. Drug use and addiction is also discussed, with Angel one of the members of the band using them as a way to get away from the pressure.
I felt this book was pretty well written, It was pretty obvious that Ruben and Zach were written by different authors, as there was a slight shift in tone and at times was slightly jarring. I would of liked to see a bit more discussion around mental health this was very loosely touched upon but could of been developed further. I would have also liked to see more of Jon, as I didn't feel that we got enough of him, or the depth that we got with the other characters.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

kayladaila's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Addiction, Biphobia, Bullying, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail