Reviews tagging 'Lesbophobia'

As irmãs Blue + brindes by Coco Mellors

6 reviews

supermormongirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

kristakp's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

I don't have siblings but this felt like a raw presentation of both the sibling dynamic and addiction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Suicide, Medical trauma, and Lesbophobia

ccerpa's review against another edition

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

0.25

taking lesbian characters away from non-lesbians until y'all learn to behave!!!!! DNF at 30% because I simply refuse to spend my one precious life reading lesbophobic buffoonery <3 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

samarakroeger's review against another edition

too much telling, very little showing. very boring and stereotypical characters who feel flat. hate the writing style and despise the audiobook narrator. 

life is too short to suffer through mediocre books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Xenophobia, and Lesbophobia

camillebergeron's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

2.0

Poorly written, full of clichés and overwriting. I’m tired of lesbian characters always needing to have some sort of relation to a man. It’s unnecessary and lesbophobic. The end is predictable, not even wholesome and then last paragraph being the baby’s perspective is just bad. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Lesbophobia

bloomed's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.0

a really gorgeous slow-burn exploring grief, sisterhood, motherhood, and addiction.

blue sisters didn’t land for me quite as hard as cleopatra and frankenstein did, but i think that’s just a personal thing—for people who have sisters, i feel like this could be the book, given how vividly the familial dynamic is written! each sister individually is also lovely; they’re all extremely flawed people, grappling with their own secrets, but the way they’re written makes them feel unbelievably human.

the only con this book really has, at least for me, is that it’s a pretty slow burn; with the synopsis of the book being what it is, i kind of expected that the sisters would be together sooner and spend a little bit more time together. as-written, it did still work, but something about the mismatch between what i thought the structure of the book would be vs the reality did make the first half or so feel a tiny bit stretched out.

regardless, coco mellors’ writing is stunning, and if she writes it, i’ll read it and love it. 4/5 stars!!

and, as always, thank you to netgalley and the publisher both giving me the opportunity to read this ARC!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Lesbophobia and Sexual harassment