Reviews tagging 'Deportation'

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

123 reviews

dangselena's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcohol, and Homophobia

Minor: Deportation, Miscarriage, Racism, and Sexual content

hex_agon's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Outing, Homophobia, Racism, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Gaslighting, and War

Minor: Miscarriage and Deportation

qcupquake's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Last Night at the Telegraph Club
4.5/5

- beautiful book. just absolutely gorgeous
- i feel like i may have liked it a little bit more and rated it 5 stars if i wasn't in a huge reading slump
- was it a little slow for my taste? yeah. was it still good? absolutely. would i recommend this as a fantastic queer novel? 100%

- i'm gonna need a story like 50 years in the future where they are living together in a world that is more welcoming to queer people

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia and Homophobia

Moderate: Deportation, Racism, Outing, and War

llamallama527's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Racism, and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content and Xenophobia

Minor: Deportation and Miscarriage

ineffablecrows's review against another edition

emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

so amazing oh my lord

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Outing, Deportation, and Alcohol

literary_waffle's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Loved 🫶
• Having a main character who is exploring her sexualit and sexual expression as well as a love interest who is a masculine presenting lesbian and other character  who are also butches and femmes is very powerful 

• The author knew who her target audience was and the effort and research put into this books about Chinese and queer history is something to be appreciated 


Did not like 
• The flashbacks, even thought I understand why they are necessary (I get it it gives me information about relationship dynamics and the history of Lily's family) I felt like, as a reader, they were just kinda boring and I was always hoping to get through them so I could get to the interesting story

• It has a lot of triggers, especially for someone queer or who is a minority 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Abandonment, and Deportation

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Xenophobia, and Outing

clarkg's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Racism, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Police brutality, Toxic friendship, Deportation, Homophobia, and War

Minor: Sexual harassment, Drug use, and Forced institutionalization

rebecca28's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deportation, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Racism

aysha_blake's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Racial slurs, Deportation, Drug use, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Racism, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Grief, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, and Miscarriage

novella42's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, and Misogyny

Minor: War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Deportation, Gaslighting, and Miscarriage