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thatchickengirl23's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Deportation
Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Blood, Police brutality, and Sexual harassment
gilnean's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation
Moderate: Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, War, and Classism
wrensreadingroom's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Outing, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation
some_random_person_hi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol
Moderate: Racism, Grief, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Deportation
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, and War
Underage drinking & underage smoking. (Not explicitly condemned in text.)kappafrog's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and War
Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Blood, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Deportation
Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content
lynxpardinus's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and War
Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Blood, Police brutality, Outing, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation
Minor: Drug use, Forced institutionalization, and Pregnancy
Pedophilia warning is just in case, for an adult woman behaving flirtatiously towards the teenage protagonist.lolajh's review against another edition
- 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
Lily Hu. What a fantastic character. A Chinese American lesbian dealing with not just racism and lesbiphobia separately, but as overlapping things that create much more of an impact than one of these things by themselves. The portrayal of Lily’s lesbianism was portrayed a bit iffy in some parts, such as describing her intense focus on other girls’ bodies, but for the most part was described as more than skin-deep.
Lily’s love for Kath, a butch lesbian, was so bittersweet, and a lovely depiction of lesbian love. Their relationship transitions so seamlessly from friends to lovers, and despite the context they are in, neither have internalised homophobia about their lesbianism, and there are never any moments of shame between them after they show affection, which is something quite prominent in a lot of queer books done even in present context. Seeing Lily’s love for butches in this book where the butch is the love interest and femme as the mc was lovely, because I got to see Lily’s admiration for butch lesbians and for Kath. I can clearly see Lily as a femme, whilst it isn’t stated as clearly as Kath being butch, because of how she expresses her femininity in no way for a man, and because of her true love for butch lesbians. They are clearly Lily’s type; her love for butches was just so beautiful to see, and so different from traditionally feminine (but not femme) lesbian stories.
Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, War, and Deportation
kashby's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Alcohol
Minor: Drug use, Miscarriage, and Blood
bectothebooks's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Drug use, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
Minor: Miscarriage, Blood, Police brutality, War, and Injury/Injury detail
talonsontypewriters's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Xenophobia, and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Child abuse, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Police brutality, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and War
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Miscarriage, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Deportation and other immigration troubles, particularly relating to the post-WWII Red Scare. Setting-typical dated language. Mentions of teacher-student relationships in a film; brief suggestive advances on a teenager by an adult. Non-graphic sex between two seventeen-year-olds and short descriptions of sex scenes in pulp novels. Police raid on a gay bar. Underage drinking and smoking. Scene where a parent slaps a child. One scene featuring an air raid drill at school and discussion of atomic bombs.