Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

90 reviews

ootoom's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-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

2.5

Hmm. Eh?

I liked the story a lot for most of it. Took a turn right at the end that made the ending fall flat, in my opinion.

That said, I think the characters facing intense personal and psychological consequences of being subjected to horrendous media day-in day-out is a type of realistic horror that I typically love. 

Couldn't bring myself to rate it higher, couldn't bring myself to rate it lower.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Self harm and Violence

there is a character that is incredibly terrible, but it is acknowledged and not supported. Also, it's about content moderation, so there are some pretty graphic descriptions of bad online posts

will0wh's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

I find the topic of the book very interesting, I like how it explored issues of desensitisation and trauma. I feel it could have been longer to fully explore the topics but I like how it was done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Xenophobia

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse

This book has basically every content warning, not particularly graphic but upsetting scenarios are spoken about frequently

stellahadz's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.25

While the premise of this book was interesting, the story felt incomplete. It had a lot of potential, but it didn't quite live up to it, in my opinion. The ending felt like it came out of nowhere. I would've liked for it to be longer, with more time and space to flesh out the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Antisemitism

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Blood, Stalking, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

echo_chamber's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fatphobia, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual violence, and Suicide

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

rowanelisa's review against another edition

challenging fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

izypup's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

While there is a lot of content warnings for this book, it’s a lot less graphic than what it seems to be made out to be when I saw reviews. It is primarily an insight on the effects of being desensitized/over-exposed to disturbing media online than about discussing the disturbing media. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Racial slurs

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Antisemitism, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

kproc381's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.25

I hate to say it, I didn’t love this book. I found some parts engaging but others a bit boring. It felt like a black mirror episode that was thrown out because it lost its original plot. I would have loved for them to go deeper about the harm the company causes the employees, instead we spent too much time on a toxic relationship. It had the outline to be great… but was not. The harmful language also did not do anything for the book. It was just for shock value.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual violence, Violence, and Antisemitism

mountaingutz's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

At times I felt like it veered to far from the original settup of Kaylee talking to the lawyer (?), I had almost forgot about the lawsuit by the end because it ended up mostly focusing on the relationships between the characters. And maybe as a deliberate choice but I feel Kaylee’s relationship with her work isn’t actually explored that far. 
Still very interesting, the characters aren’t good people which can be off putting but overall added to the vibe appropriately.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Antisemitism

claire_riach's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.5

If you want a book about flawed narrators and the mess that is the internet, social media and inappropriate online content, this is for you.

If you want loveable characters, plots that come to a clear resolution or something that feels like more than an angry diatribe/character study, give this a miss 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Homophobia and Suicide

charliepeculiar's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Homophobia, Self harm, Antisemitism, and Gaslighting