Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

High School by Tegan Quin, Sara Quin

22 reviews

donutlookaway's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.5

if you listened to tegan and sara, definitely listen as an audiobook because it was aaaaamazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Homophobia

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Homophobia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Bullying, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Cursing, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Outing, Vomit, Sexual content, and Eating disorder

amelody's review

challenging funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use

thegoldendragoness's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

This was a good memoir. I personally didn’t enjoy it much because I felt like my experiences as a teen are so separate from anything sara and tegan experienced. While I don’t need to relate to the people in the memoir in order to enjoy it, it still felt too removed from anything in my sphere. The writing was excellent though, and I imagine many others will be able to enjoy it more than me! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Drug use, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Misogyny

bookishsapphicshay's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Eating disorder, Alcohol, Bullying, and Drug use

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

kpwxx's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Homophobia

Moderate: Cursing, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Bullying, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Biphobia, Blood, Car accident, Confinement, Sexual content, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Excrement, Infidelity, and Kidnapping

gem_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Sexual content

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, and Homophobia

zoeyzebra's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

As per usual, I recommend listening to the audiobook because they sing during narration and include recordings.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol and Drug use

Minor: Homophobia

canavanprice's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Drug abuse and Homophobia

finesilkflower's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

4.0

Tegan and Sara Quin both have a similar prose style that is at times flowery but emotionally honest, and effective at evoking of the highs and lows teenagerhood: the joy of creation and of falling in love; the fraught relationship between sisters; the heartache of breakups; the excitement of exploring music, drugs, and sex; the stuck suburban longing for something more. This book does not paint this time period in a rosy way - the Quins have not forgotten the turmoil and confusion of leaving the nest and not knowing how things will turn out - but other former teen 1990s alternative lesbians will find recognition in the music references and perfectly remembered moments of queer becoming. I think at times that the authors are a little too allergic to nostalgia, tempering all their past moments of triumph and joy with present-day weary warnings about how it won't last and how their past selves don't know how much difficulty they have ahead of them, and a little more leaning into the positive might have made the book feel more balanced and less dreary.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia and Drug use

Minor: Violence and Vomit