Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

155 reviews

literaryinluv's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.75

You can't really put a rating on someone's life or perspective of their life. But you can on the execution. This memoir is littered with literary references, sometimes to a fault, but I enjoyed most of them anyway. However, it also got a bit convoluted due to this. Overall, though, I enjoyed it, and I believe the rating may be higher if I read it a second time in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Suicide

Minor: Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Homophobia, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Biphobia

ferdie's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Fun House is intellectual and vulnerable. The cartoon style really helps show the emotion behind the complex thoughts. I was not familiar with all the literature references so I feel like I missed some points of the book :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Suicide, Grief, and Pedophilia

Minor: Child abuse

kcbatts's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Suicide

Moderate: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Homophobia

lily1304's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

readingrainbowroad's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

Minor: Sexual assault, War, and Alcohol

marigoldgem's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Adult/minor relationship, and Infidelity

emmylouwri's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

I really, really enjoyed this. She perfectly captures the strangeness of loving family. Borrowing a critique from another reviewer- the heavy literary references were difficult to follow for someone who hasn’t read most of the books. I loved the setting, the genius title, the dark humor… Wow, Bechdel packed so much reflection into this memoir. I’m excited to read Are You My Mother? soon. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Car accident

Minor: Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, and Homophobia

wrenny03's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

A gripping memoir told with a wonderful mix of humour and sincerity 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Death of parent, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, and Death

jesika's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Death of parent, Car accident, Homophobia, Grief, Death, Infidelity, Outing, and Pedophilia

tree_branch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Suicide, Child abuse, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Infidelity

Minor: Sexual assault and Pregnancy