Reviews

Pageboy by Elliot Page

akajujorge's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.0

icecreamated's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual assault

zitronenzest's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

lisdahl's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.75

ebz1022's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

lea_pleiades's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

eviemm's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

3.0

amylangdown_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Having followed Elliot’s transition over the last few years, this book gave me a real insight into his life. It manifests perfectly, in a way I’ve never seen before, gender dysphoria and the way transness, and queerness in general, shapes a life. I listened via audiobook and it was hard to listen to at times, but honest. And it’s so clear that he has done a lot of reflection to be able to discuss the past in such a way that is careful and analysed.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Homophobia, and Child abuse

disabledreamer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.25

vixenreader's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

A structure based on the journey towards self-love, this memoir is deeply poignant, unflinching, and vulnerable, and a honest experience about how wilful ignorance and prejudice ultimately perpetrates the bigotry experienced by the trans community. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Lesbophobia, Dysphoria, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Deadnaming, and Sexism

Moderate: Death, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Cancer, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Self harm, Drug use, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Biphobia, Alcoholism, Violence, Blood, Classism, and Drug abuse

Be aware that there are themes of parental neglect, rejecting a trans child, bi-erasure, putting actors in harm’s way, the influence of the internet, tension within unhealthy relationships, unhealthy polyamory, heartbreak, threats towards trans and queer folks, nudity in film, erasure of queer identity, and being forced back into the closet.