Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

30 reviews

jamiejanae_6's review

hopeful informative reflective sad tense

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Stalking, Bullying, Eating disorder, and Excrement

bashsbooks's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

A difficult read, but an important one. Elliot Page is such a phenomenal actor and iconic celebrity, but the man can write, too. He shares his story - which is fraught with neglect, queerphobia, and sexual violence, among other traumas - with such precise descriptions, tongue-in-cheek humor, and frank honesty. I listened to the audiobook version of Pageboy, and I got the extra treat of hearing it all in his own voice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Outing, Self harm, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit, Pandemic/Epidemic, Bullying, and Toxic friendship

-Deadnaming isn't really, like traditional deadnaming -Elliot chooses to use his former first name at some points and comments on it specifically in his initial author's note. I only note it so you're not surprised to see/hear it. -Child abuse is neglect and verbal.

green_squids's review against another edition

reflective sad tense medium-paced

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Bullying, Blood, Deadnaming, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Cursing, Dysphoria, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Hate crime, Outing, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Death of parent

eleasereads's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Outing, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, Body shaming, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Transphobia, Medical content, Self harm, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

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

smalljoys's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

As other reviewers have shared, the time jumps in the book were a bit hard to digest. (for example; going from a story of elliot at age 6 and then jumping to age 19 and back to age 6 and then to age 28) I had trouble keeping up with the time jumps. Altogether though, thank you Elliot Page for sharing yourself with us. I appreciate you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Drug use, Excrement, Grief, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, Medical content, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Transphobia, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Drug use, Excrement, Homophobia, Deadnaming, and Injury/Injury detail

xarsonx's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Hate crime, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Blood, Self harm, Transphobia, Medical content, Vomit, Dysphoria, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual content

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic and Alcohol

honeybeewitched87's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Homophobia, Medical content, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Biphobia, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Transphobia

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Body shaming, Alcohol, Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Cursing, Deadnaming, and Gaslighting

madscientistcat's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I cried in the intro and that really just set the tone for the whole book. I feel almost overwhelmed with how incredible it is to hear Elliot's story this way. I can't recommend the audiobook enough; hearing it in his own voice is a beautiful thing.
(Seriously check the content warnings though, this is not an easy one)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Cursing, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Transphobia, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexism, Homophobia, Deadnaming, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Rape, Drug use, Dysphoria, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Stalking, and Mental illness

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic and Hate crime

Minor: Death of parent and Vomit

Additional content warning for obsessive compulsive behavior/disorder

shirarweiss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse