Reviews tagging 'Lesbophobia'

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

7 reviews

town_scar's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

3.75

This was a 5 star for me up until I got to the last 50-100 pages. The conflict didn't feel well resolved and the way certain characters behaved really unsettled me. Spoilery explanation below.

honestly I love Ethan but it feels like his brother was given the #metoo treatment and he just didn't believe his girlfriend? Which is absolutely horrifying?!? How can you trust he'll ever believe you again? And I'm sorry I don't care how cool Ami is with it is nobody gonna address the elephant in the room about Dane and Ami at Olive's wedding? No? Overall that was my beef. The stakes were actually pretty high for a conflict and should have had pretty massive consequences with irreparable damage done, but it was easily waved off. I also just don't like how they handled the infidelity. Even if it wasn't the romantic leads experiencing infidelity, it still feels weird to read in a romance

Pros: Very relatable and funny female lead. Really sweet relationship* between the two characters. For me, loved the MN representation. It's impressive considering neither author is from the area how local it felt. Sex scenes are implied rather than shown and it works well.

Cons: almost impossible to say without spoiling. But suffice to say some strange choices were made that I'm not enthusiastic about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Vomit, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Sexual content, and Lesbophobia

lovealwaysadi's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Infidelity, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Minor: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Vomit, and Lesbophobia

natalie_j's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Excrement, Medical content, and Lesbophobia

vanesst's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Body shaming, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Lesbophobia

jamespotterluv's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.25

it's not a bad book, perse. it's... readable. the overall concept is really good and i love a good enemies to lovers, but the execution was mediocre at best. the whole enemies to lovers trope wasn't written that well and when the plot twist came i was not surprised (and it felt like a waste of time.) there were a lot of stereotypes in the book that i didn't like at all. it was borderline lesbophobic w comments that were made abt ximena and the only confirmed gay character just felt like he was included for diversity points? how the authors portrayed him... i'm not going to get into how they portrayed olive's body since one of the authors is plus sized so they can probably speak on that. what they can't speak on is the hispanic culture (the main character is hispanic.) both authors are white and whilst i have no issue w culture being included, what bothers me is how they included it. we got a surname, a few spanish words, some stereotypes and that was it. it added nothing to the plot. don't get me started on ethan/olive's relationship and the portrayal of dane/ami. it's sanist too btw.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Lesbophobia

the authors rlly hate gay ppl what can i say.

positivelyreading's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming and Gaslighting

Minor: Lesbophobia

ivana's review against another edition

funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Vomit

Moderate: Lesbophobia