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Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

71 reviews

kappafrog's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Blood, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Deportation

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content

sourkiwi's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? No

4.5

even though it’s definitely period accurate and things happen that would happen to queer people in the 50s, it’s not queer torture porn and it ends on an incredibly hopeful, romantic note

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing

Moderate: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use and Deportation

purplatypus's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content, Outing, Toxic friendship, and Deportation

Minor: Drug use

raneyak's review against another edition

emotional 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

I don’t usually cry over books, but I cried over this one. This is a book I wish I had read earlier, before my first love and first heartbreak. If you are a young queer woman, I strongly encourage you to read this book because even though it is set almost 70 years ago, so much of it resonated with the experiences we still have today.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Outing

Moderate: Drug use, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Forced institutionalization and War

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Blood, Police brutality, Outing, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Minor: Drug use, Forced institutionalization, and Pregnancy

Pedophilia warning is just in case, for an adult woman behaving flirtatiously towards the teenage protagonist.

scrunklyguy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

Originally I bought this book for the pretty cover, I had no idea what it was about, but oh am I glad I chose to read it.

I really liked this book even if the pace is slower than what I usually read. I actually quite enjoyed reading all the little details and even if ever so often I remembered a detail that turned out to not matter all that much story-wise it didn't feel like I wasted my time reading words for nothing.

And if you're like me and you dislike reading spicy scenes this book is great because it barely contains any (explicit that is, there of course are mentions of sex and sometimes it's more than others but overall I didn't feel like it was too difficult to read) 

A thing that shocked me was the language use in this book. Many words that today would be considered very offensive were used and at first it made me upset but I later realized it was simply the author trying to stay true to the 50's, so naturally that kind of language was used back then.

This book definitely made me reflect on many things and I really recommend reading this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Lesbophobia, and Outing

Minor: Drug use, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

mel_katz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Transphobia

Moderate: Police brutality and Abandonment

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

sknappy1's review against another edition

hopeful informative 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Outing

Moderate: Sexism, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Deportation

Minor: Drug use, Physical abuse, Racism, Forced institutionalization, and Xenophobia

katelynnreads's review against another edition

adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, War, and Deportation

Great read.

daydream's review

emotional hopeful 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

miss malinda lo, you will be paying for my therapy bills.

my heart is shattered beyond repair, but my heart is also full to the brim. no other book has ever made me feel quite so seen.

i think i cried the entire way through the last eight chapters, and i will probably never fully recover. i loved loved loved nearly everything about this book, and i'm so grateful i was able to experience it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Racial slurs, Outing, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use and Sexual content