Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

34 reviews

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Grief, and Outing

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Bullying, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

esterix's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, and Homophobia

kimveach's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

4.0

I enjoyed this romance. The enemies-to-lovers and inconvenient-love tropes worked. This is the perfect book for anyone who wasn't thrilled with the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election. The revisionist history takes you to a very happy place.

This book would be rated R for language (I had to look up a couple of phrases in Urban Dictionary) and sex (you definitely know what is happening.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Cursing, Death of parent, Outing, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Bullying, Classism, Drug use, Grief, and Homophobia

kbairbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing 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

3.25

I liked this book more than Shara Wheeler but less than One Last Stop. I feel like the first 50% was long distance, time passing, lots of sex. The next 35% was homophobia and racism (not on the authors part that I can see but just from the contents of the story) and the last 15% were inspirational and emotional and uplifting moments. I think they did an excellent job fleshing out their characters as always and the story itself was fun and I’ve never read anything like it before but it just wasn’t quite for me. Also I don’t think Casey should have written from the perspective of a Mexican American individual.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Homophobia, Alcohol, Classism, Death of parent, Racism, Sexual content, Hate crime, and Outing

Moderate: Sexual harassment

medini_l's review against another edition

lighthearted 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Outing, Biphobia, Sexual content, Bullying, Cancer, and Homophobia

jjjreads's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Biphobia, Confinement, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Outing

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Grief, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Stalking, and Misogyny

Minor: Bullying, Genocide, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, and Child abuse

rini's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

This is the absolute funniest book I have listened to in forever!! I thought I was going to give myself an asthma attack from laughing so much and so hard!!

I LOVED all the Star Wars references!!

All the HP references were tired.

I was utterly horrified that the narrator pronounced gif as "jif"!! 😱

I am head over heels in love with these characters!!

I stayed up till after 5:30am to finish this and I'll probably re-listen to it again before the year is out! (It's mid December)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Grief, Homophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Slavery

chloevienna's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Biphobia, Bullying, Death of parent, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Outing, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Addiction, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Sexism

zenttus's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Outing

louisa_pennyfeather2021's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Biphobia, and Outing

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Biphobia, Outing, Sexual content, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, and Cancer