Reviews tagging 'Outing'

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480 reviews

camrich's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Hate crime, Bullying, Violence, Homophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Cursing, Classism, Outing, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Cancer

maresuju's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, and Bullying

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Stalking, Gaslighting, Outing, Classism, and Hate crime

Minor: Murder, Drug use, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Police brutality, and Misogyny

mxleelah's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring mysterious reflective tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Toxic friendship, Homophobia, Racism, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Car accident, Gaslighting, Death, and Outing

theuncannydani's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Racism, Child abuse, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Stalking, Classism, Death, Car accident, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual harassment, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Confinement, Alcohol, Suicide, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Grief, Death of parent, and Sexual violence

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Cursing, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug abuse

simbarabbit20's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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: Racism, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Bullying, and Hate crime

Moderate: Car accident and Outing

Minor: Death of parent, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

kekeyul's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Outing, Racism, and Homophobia

bookishkellyn's review against another edition

mysterious tense

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

3.5

Senior year starts off with a bang when the only two Black students (popular mean girl, Chiamaka & music geek, Devon) are blasted Gossip Girl style by an anonymous villain (Aces). Chiamaka struggles to uphold her perfectly crafted image while Devon fears for his safety. The culprit reveal was surprisingly sinister. The book went off the rails near the end with the Bigotry 101 dialogue and naivety of the main characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Bullying

Moderate: Homophobia, Outing, Racism, and Classism

Minor: Death of parent, Racial slurs, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

living_for_the_hope_of_it_all's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-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

3.5

this had me HOOKED literally ate it up, made up theories and speculated about everything
justice for my boy von he did nothing wrong!!!!
also Dre. i fucking love dre come home babe the kids miss you
3* because a few characters were left which i would have loved to see more of

belle, dre, jack, even ruby like cmon where did they gooo

got a few good laughs out of it, almost made me cry once 

that reveal about von's dad being on death roll the last time von ever saw him??? like stfu i was gonna THROW. UP.

overall i enjoyed it thoroughly, got my mind moving and all that, very quick to read and the writing was pretty easy to read too so!
great one!!

~a month later~
taking the rating down a notch bcz not that in hindsight i think the book is bad, it's just that i always forget i even read it😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Outing, and Blood

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Misogyny, and Murder

Minor: Suicide attempt, Police brutality, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Panic attacks/disorders

lnms04's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

Moderate: Racism, Toxic friendship, Violence, Physical abuse, Outing, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

stuckinatimeloop's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful 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

interesting story. i think it was a bit longer than it should have been though but still good overall 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Misogyny, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Outing, Car accident, and Hate crime