Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

High School Tegan & Sara by Tegan and Sara Quin

27 reviews

kpwxx's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Homophobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Violence, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Confinement, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Car accident, and Alcohol

gem_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, and Lesbophobia

zoeyzebra's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

As per usual, I recommend listening to the audiobook because they sing during narration and include recordings.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia

canavanprice's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Drug abuse and Homophobia

finesilkflower's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

4.0

Tegan and Sara Quin both have a similar prose style that is at times flowery but emotionally honest, and effective at evoking of the highs and lows teenagerhood: the joy of creation and of falling in love; the fraught relationship between sisters; the heartache of breakups; the excitement of exploring music, drugs, and sex; the stuck suburban longing for something more. This book does not paint this time period in a rosy way - the Quins have not forgotten the turmoil and confusion of leaving the nest and not knowing how things will turn out - but other former teen 1990s alternative lesbians will find recognition in the music references and perfectly remembered moments of queer becoming. I think at times that the authors are a little too allergic to nostalgia, tempering all their past moments of triumph and joy with present-day weary warnings about how it won't last and how their past selves don't know how much difficulty they have ahead of them, and a little more leaning into the positive might have made the book feel more balanced and less dreary.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use and Homophobia

Minor: Violence and Vomit

mert64's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Alcohol

raysh3ll's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

I "read" as an audiobook. 100% reccomend consuming it in that format- lots of audio clips of them performing while in high school, singing lyrics while reading them. I don't think this book would be very interesting if you weren't a fan of there music or weren't intetested in stories discussing sexuality, growing up etc. 

I found it fairly easy to listen to, but it probabably wouldn't be for everyone. Lots of talk about love interests, teenage sexuality and drug use. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use and Sexual content

grimdark_dad's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Classism

jessthanthree's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use

thepeonyinink's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Homophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Eating disorder