Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

75 reviews

the_true_monroe's review

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dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0


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phouka's review against another edition

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funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.25


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george_tte's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

Nuanced, vulnerable, complicated. A fantastic memoir that is incredibly engaging and insightful. 

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stephmcoakley's review

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25


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stevia333k's review

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dark tense slow-paced

4.25

The last 3rd was good, and i say this because the first 2 thirds were violent as hell. I had to learn that he was in a lot of action movies basically in order to handle it & i also could only listen 10 minutes at a time at triple speed. 

Anyways, after a while certain parts about being trans were like oh good my transfemme self isn't alone. 

The relationships though & the shadow work kinda went over my head because I'm aromantic but the workplace accident (because of how wreckless the directors were to black & queer lives) helped connect me to the kind of stuff he meant, so I am thankful he included workplace incidents like that.

Also the memoir isn't told as chronologically, so basically if you're taking notes then I recommend trying to make a character list sort of glossary since the time dimension doesn't sort them, but some segments are like public letters.

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laughingrecord's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

3.5


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rainbowbrarian's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

4.0


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junglejelly's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

Overall, I did like this book, especially as a fan of Elliot Page. I just wish the writing had been as strong thought the book as it was at the end.

The writing itself was heartfelt and raw throughout. However, I did feel it was not as strong at the beginning than at the end. At times I also struggled with the nonlinear timeline but this is likely a personal preference.

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capyval's review against another edition

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2.75

I wanted to like it, but I couldn't.

I connected with the chapters that focused on his relationship with his dad and stepmother, but not with the rest.

The book has more gore than I expected, which I'm very sensitive with.

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cats33's review

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emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25


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