Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

15 reviews

the_ash37's review

funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Outing, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, Stalking, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use, Excrement, Sexual harassment, Addiction, and Incest

ohdeerboi's review

emotional funny hopeful 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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Outing

Moderate: Death of parent, Homophobia, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Incest, Rape, Stalking, Slavery, Colonisation, and Vomit

glorytowers05's review

emotional funny hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Alcohol, Cursing, and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Cancer, Homophobia, Racism, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, Incest, Drug use, and Stalking

planner5002's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

3.75

I liked this book a lot more the first three times, and it’s lost its charm some. 
I like when books have multiple plots, and this book is one of my favorite examples of that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Biphobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Incest

taylorsevalia's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Cursing

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Alcohol, Outing, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction

Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Mass/school shootings, Grief, Slavery, Incest, Cancer, Blood, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Colonisation, and Adult/minor relationship

ageckocalledachilles's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

It was pretty good from the beginning, but Oh my God it is impossible to put down once you reach the halfway point

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Outing, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Alcohol, Racism, Drug use, Sexual assault, Addiction, and Colonisation

Minor: Classism, Colonisation, and Incest

nicamooch's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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? Yes

4.0

I really enjoyed this! The humour & all the character relationships—especially Alex & June’s. Alex and Henry are utter dumbasses but their interactions are so fun to read and their love story is so full of heart 😭. I binged the last half of this after work and was crying for most of it.

Politics-wise the escapist fantasy I think this was intended to be, unfortunately kept dragging me back & reminding me of reality :|

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol and Homophobia

Minor: Addiction, Genocide, Grief, Colonisation, Gun violence, Incest, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault

lunep's review

emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, Outing, Mental illness, Cursing, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Homophobia

Moderate: Gaslighting, Grief, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Stalking, Deportation, Slavery, Colonisation, Rape, Sexual assault, Classism, Incest, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, and Biphobia

chrisljm's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Disclaimer: I am incredibly wary of political figures. It’s fuck the British monarchy and I hate US democracy. I was pretty cynical from the beginning of this book because it seemed like a very much idealized version of political leaders, and I couldn’t help but be bitter. However, as more of the story unfolded, I became swept up in Alex and Henry’s story. The prose is so romantic, using just the right words that had me falling in love with Henry right alongside Alex. There were many moments where I was moved to tears, because Alex’s love is so immense. And since obviously they’re long distance, the pining is just.. so.. good. I loved seeing them come together and I wish I could protect them from all the bad things.

Most of the political aspects took a backseat in my brain majority of the time, but I was definitely less cynical and more hopeful in a way by the end. In the acknowledgements, the author describes the book as “escapist, trauma-soothing, alternate-but-realistic reality. Not a perfect world—one still believably fucked up, just a little better, a little more optimistic”, and I think they accomplished that, at least with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing and Cursing

Moderate: Homophobia, Abandonment, Death of parent, Sexual content, Grief, Addiction, Alcohol, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Cancer, and Incest

alinaa_sf's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad slow-paced

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

4.0

i did really enjoy this book and the romance was built up in a really nice way and while having much more obscure problems due to politics it also explored a very realistic and relatable side to the characters. it would've been 5 stars but i felt that the major conflicts that had been building up over the course of the book were resolved much too quickly. the build-up was much more impactful that the resolution and that's where it lost some points from me. still a really enjoyable read with relatable themes and characters

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Homophobia, and Outing

Minor: Incest