Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

16 reviews

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

caseythereader's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Stalking, Abandonment, Child abuse, Cursing, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Self harm

_jennaalbright_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Deadnaming, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Body shaming, Homophobia, and Transphobia

rayreyes's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

I love EP and appreciate his vulnerability in this piece. However, the majority of the novel was challenging. Pedophelia, non consensual physical advances, parental abuse/neglect, parental abandonment/narcissism… yowza was this a potluck of triumph and pain. Not what I had in mind going into it, but I’m grateful for the read. It was really nice being able to trust his account of things so easily; he’s able to hold the good and the imperfect about himself and his choices so earnestly and mindfully compassionate that it was clear the work he’s done. Bravo for lovely people 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual content, Stalking, Child abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexual assault, Abandonment, Rape, Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, and Outing

Minor: Drug use, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kshertz's review against another edition

hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.5

This memoir was so important for me to read. I feel like it was so important for Elliot to write. I definitely thought it was the right amount in terms of length and information given. I think Elliot might come out with another book maybe 20 years in the future that will have even more revelations. But I definitely recommend this to any person that has trans friends or family or just wants to understand a trans person a little more. I definitely agree with Elliot that this is only one person’s story but hearing his story just made a world of difference to me to help me to understand everything that a trans person might go through.  The only reason it’s not five stars is because he definitely name drops a lot of people and I just hope that he got permission from them to do that and because I haven’t heard if that’s true or not I kind of have some empathy for people who are name dropped here that might not want to be

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Self harm, Abandonment, Body shaming, Bullying, and Suicidal thoughts

auteaandtales's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Homophobia, and Bullying

Moderate: Transphobia, Abandonment, Excrement, Child abuse, Vomit, Sexism, and Stalking