Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

56 reviews

mads_reads_books's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit and Sexual assault

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Excrement, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

alexayres47's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Eating disorder, Transphobia, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Religious bigotry, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, and Vomit

nad_books623's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

“It is painful the unraveling, but it leads you to you.”

This book would be 5 stars if the timeline wasn’t so confusing. I had to constantly go back or think about the timeline. Due to Elliot mentioning something where he’s 10 for example and then when he’s 33. If it was in chronological order I think it would be easier to piece together. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Bullying, Eating disorder, Lesbophobia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, and Transphobia

Moderate: Misogyny and Mental illness

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Pandemic/Epidemic, Stalking, and Vomit

phouka's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Dysphoria, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Hate crime, Child death, Homophobia, Stalking, Transphobia, Child abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Drug use, Medical content, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Bullying, Car accident, and Rape

Minor: Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Abandonment, Alcohol, Cancer, Self harm, Sexism, Mental illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

stevia333k's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

4.25

The last 3rd was good, and i say this because the first 2 thirds were violent as hell. I had to learn that he was in a lot of action movies basically in order to handle it & i also could only listen 10 minutes at a time at triple speed. 

Anyways, after a while certain parts about being trans were like oh good my transfemme self isn't alone. 

The relationships though & the shadow work kinda went over my head because I'm aromantic but the workplace accident (because of how wreckless the directors were to black & queer lives) helped connect me to the kind of stuff he meant, so I am thankful he included workplace incidents like that.

Also the memoir isn't told as chronologically, so basically if you're taking notes then I recommend trying to make a character list sort of glossary since the time dimension doesn't sort them, but some segments are like public letters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Dysphoria, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Toxic relationship, Vomit, War, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Confinement, Death, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Cancer, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Torture, Violence, Blood, Hate crime, Sexual content, Transphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Gore, Grief, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Self harm

hellokira's review against another edition

adventurous

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Eating disorder, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Transphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Rape

Minor: Bullying

lupinusrivularis's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

There are little pieces of me in this book now, pieces that I didn't know I would find and some that I've left behind.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Transphobia

moliviabow's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

A heartwarming and personal journey! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Body shaming, and Stalking

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, and Outing

stevienotnicks's review against another edition

DNF’d at 67% through the audiobook. 

He focused way too much on graphic details of his sex life that was way too TMI…and an odd focus on shitting. 

I appreciated hearing his turmoil and struggle with identity, but I couldn’t get past the prose, which felt like he was trying to force something profound that just wasn’t there.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Blood and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Vomit and Deadnaming

abicaro17's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

2.75

So the actual story is really compelling about heartbreaking but, like most memoirs I read, is jumbled and feels unfinished. This book would have benefited with a chronological order format or at least naming the year each story was in. Page uses ages as time markers and as someone who has no idea how old they are, it was confusing. Page also throws in lots of random info that doesn't contribute to the story, like info about landmarks or anecdotes about childhood musings. The parts of the story that felt relevant and composed, like Page's tumultuous relationship with their dad or growth in relationships, added reflection and complexity that's desperately needed in this book. I wish I liked this more because learning about Elliot Pages story was so engaging (plus I love them!) but, this book was a little too all over the place for my taste. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Deadnaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Body shaming, Homophobia, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Stalking, Transphobia, and Violence