Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

17 reviews

rockyroadbutch's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Transphobia, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, and Child abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Cursing, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Trafficking, and Sexual content

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Self harm, Sexual content, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Religious bigotry, Violence, Vomit, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Excrement, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Child abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Bullying, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Car accident, Lesbophobia, Murder, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Classism, Torture, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Cancer, Child death, Drug abuse, War, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

redroseses's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual content, Sexism, Eating disorder, Blood, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Drug use, Deadnaming, Cursing, Child abuse, and Bullying

Minor: Infidelity, Medical content, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Deadnaming, Addiction, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Biphobia

heather_harrison's review

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.25

Chaotic and introspective memoir with tones of emotional drain. Pacing was jumpy and if this was EP then probably would have DNF’d 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Rape, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, Eating disorder, and Bullying

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Religious bigotry, Cursing, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Bullying, and Toxic friendship

imstephtacular's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Raw, heartbreaking, poetic, and ultimately joyful. The writing was stunning. I am endlessly grateful that these stories are able to be told 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual content, Stalking, Cursing, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Toxic relationship, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, and Transphobia

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Excrement, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, and Violence

Minor: Vomit

melissa_h's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

It was great to hear Elliot's truth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, Body shaming, Bullying, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Addiction, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

jess_esa's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I couldn’t put this down. Definitely one of my favourite memoirs so far.

I honestly didn’t know what to expect but since I love Elliot Page it was an instant purchase. 

This memoir really dives into his childhood trauma and trauma around coming out, including all of his relationships and hookups along the way. He makes it clear he still has a lot of work to do unpacking everything he’s been through, and you can very much see he’s still on a journey. 

I would say you need to be in the right frame of mind to read this because there are some really difficult topics addressed here including abuse, sexual assault and disordered eating. This is particularly apparent in the first half of the book. 

I really enjoyed his tangents, I felt like a learnt a lot about Nova Scotia,  the environment, roller derby, the city of Los Angeles…and more! It’s written like a friend telling you a story and I appreciated that. 

I feel like some people might struggle with how disjointed it is, it really flits between time periods and topics with no real through line. But I honestly really enjoyed that and it kept me interested. 

I personally wish there’d been a little bit more about the Umbrella Academy era. But he generally doesn’t linger much on his work outside of how incredibly uncomfortable it has been masking all these years and how suffocating the whole industry can be for queer people. 

Overall, I highly recommend! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Lesbophobia, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Addiction

Minor: Emotional abuse