Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

127 reviews

crags617's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Self harm

steffilietzke's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

Moderate: Medical content, Deadnaming, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Lesbophobia, and Emotional abuse

shadowlesbian's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.0

This story wants to communicate that there were some big name actors at these scenes and parties, but won’t tell us who, which eventually just got tiresome and confusing. Overall a good piece of writing, would be good for a lot of gen z queer people to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit and Blood

trinidaddy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Transphobia, Eating disorder, Cursing, Hate crime, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Stalking, Bullying, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

kelisabeth's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual content, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Blood, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Transphobia, Drug use, Medical content, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Self harm

merryfaith's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Stalking, Self harm, and Hate crime

theoceanrose's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Transphobia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Toxic relationship and Injury/Injury detail

hazelwood's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

This was a very interesting and reflective read for me, I was surprised how open and honest Elliot was able to be with his audience, especially about very sensitive and personal moments in his life. It really felt like a friend who was telling you about his life. And I related to a lot of what he went through in regards to being transgender. 

That said, I haven't read many memoirs in my life, so take this with a grain of salt: I didn't really like the way the book is written with the events all out of order. It was confusing and tended to give me metaphorical whiplash. But maybe that's just the way memoirs are. I also wish that Elliot had gone into more about his transition and his feelings about it. The whole thing felt rushed into at the end of the book, with only a few sentences about taking hormones. I get it if he wants privacy about his current life, but considering how depressing the rest of the book's events are, I feel like readers could benefit from seeing more of the light at the end of the tunnel. Perhaps the memoir could have been left to simmer for a few years while Elliot got used to his "new" life, giving him more moments of trans joy to write about?  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, Excrement, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Dysphoria, Medical content, Sexual assault, Stalking, Rape, Drug use, Hate crime, Deadnaming, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Outing, Self harm, Sexual harassment, and Suicidal thoughts

just_curious34's review against another edition

hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

A queer coming-of-self story, an autobiography of a 35 year old. 

It was a quick read, alternating between seemingly universal queer stories and Elliot inadvertently name dropping stars that played an important role in his life. 

I enjoyed this book. It was a very fast read for me, perhaps because I really enjoyed reading the representation I felt he gave to different parts of my queer life.   

But at the same time, in many ways, many of the stories feel very surface level. It felt like when there was something that was difficult, such as when he was to blame for a failed relationship, Page would often lose the words or change the subject (most commonly in the middle of the book). While this is his right as the author, this book feels like it was written to help Elliot process his pain that’s still very fresh, rather than impart his wisdom after the fact. I’d be curious what this book would look like if he wrote it in 10+ years.

Content warning: Page talks pretty openly and graphically about his sex life over the years. It is part of what makes this book very queer, but may affect who you recommend the book to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Sexual content

Moderate: Gaslighting, Stalking, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Transphobia, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Pandemic/Epidemic, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Mental illness

jennysbooked's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

A very raw memoir. My main issue was the back and forth of Elliot’s life. One minute he is talking about his time on Juno, then talking about hooking up in high school, then jumping to coming out. It was a little hard to keep track as I felt there were so many personal stories that would have made more sense chronologically. The writing and narration is well done, again very raw and emotional. Check for trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Toxic relationship