Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out by Ryan Love

35 reviews

hayleyvem's review

emotional lighthearted reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Lesbophobia, Child death, Grief, Suicide, Homophobia, Outing, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Medical content, Cancer, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

Minor: Alcohol

lady_of_the_ulla's review

emotional hopeful reflective 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Suicide

josieruby1's review against another edition

3.75

This was really difficult to rate because there was a lot of this book that I absolutely adored. Arthur and Madeleine's relationship for exactly was the most wholesome thing ever. 

However there was also several things I didn't think were resolved well, lacked consequence, came out of nowhere or were skipped over.

All in all I would give Arthur's story a 5/5 and Teddy's more of a 3. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer and Violence

traceyanderson's review

challenging relaxing 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Toxic relationship, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Homophobia, Medical content, and Toxic friendship

sophcart_'s review

medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Suicide and Cancer

Minor: Death of parent

crashingchandelier's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Death of parent, Outing, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

blue_hippo's review

emotional informative medium-paced

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

2.5

I was hoping for a queer feel-good family and romance book, instead I got a weird friends to lovers and homomisia (with violence). The development of Arthur's coming-out felt somewhat unrealistic and there were a few moment where I just got ripped out of the story because something felt wrong. There was also only gay representation und zero focus on other parts of the LGBTQ+ community (and the main characters are white and pretty wealthy).

A few of the characters were quite lovely though, and the basic plot was a new idea for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Violence

laurataylor's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Cancer, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Emotional abuse

chelseamayxxx's review

challenging emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

4.0

This book is so so amazing I loved the main character Arthur the main character though out this whole book the way he told his family and friend he was gay was the most sweetest thing I have read in a book in ages and the way he comes back together with his family after they initially fall out with him at the start of his new life journey it was so good to see how they came back together as a family and how they accepted him in the end. The 2nd main character teddy wasn’t my favourite and his car crash of a friendship and relationships thought out all this book made me so annoyed and so uninterested in his parts of the book. I wish this book was mostly about Arthur if I am been honest. The ending of this book was done in such a cute way and I think the  ending of the book really fitted it so well. I was smitten and giggling whilst reading the ending. Xxx

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer

capyval's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

Arthur gets out of the closet at age 79, and his daughter doesn't take it so well... Which puts Teddy (Arthur's grandson) in an awkward position, as he's also gay and hasn't told his mum yet.
The story has a cute start, it's cool to see an elderly person coming out of the closet and telling their story, but the book didn't have a strong story and the everything turns boring very early, in my opinion. I didn't care much about any of the characters and their dramas.
The book is not YA as far as I know, but the story is so simple, it may as well be. There's no explicit sex.
TW: suicide
The two narrators of the audiobook are ok, but also not so great IMO.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicide, and Cancer