Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

127 reviews

lizzisok's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Rape, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Eating disorder, and Self harm

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

callidoralblack's review against another edition

emotional

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Medical content, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Vomit, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Blood, Cursing, Deadnaming, Excrement, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

sierrabowers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I feel like it’s almost impossible not to give a memoir 5 stars, simply because it is someone else’s life experience, and how am I to judge that? But this one was very good. It highlights the importance of being kind to everyone, especially those in the LGBT+ community. I enjoyed hearing Elliot narrate his own audiobook because I could hear the emotions in his voice throughout the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Blood, Child abuse, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Deadnaming, Sexual content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Outing, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Vomit, Biphobia, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Body shaming

hayleyvem's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Outing, Blood, Bullying, Stalking, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Grief, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Body shaming and Alcohol

Minor: Blood

catcherinthepi's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

Elliot is such a unique writer, and I enjoyed getting to know his story on his terms. It is quite clear this wasn't ghost-written. The structure is non-linear, which is hard to follow at times, but I actually enjoyed this aspect of the memoir. I interpreted the structure as thematic rather than chronological; it felt like we as readers got a peek into how Elliot put together the pieces of his life, mind, and body to come to his current sense of self. I also enjoyed the endearing historical anecdotes about places in Canada.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Dysphoria, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Sexual violence, Deadnaming, and Vomit

brandie_abbie19's review against another edition

dark hopeful sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexism, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Homophobia, Transphobia, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual violence, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Blood, Cursing, Deadnaming, Transphobia, Medical content, Bullying, Body shaming, Drug use, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Self harm, Alcohol, Body horror, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Abandonment

mattyvreads's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Written in beautiful and impressive prose, this book is inspiring, heartbreaking, informative, and raw. It is a window into queer life, and a testament to the difficulties and necessity of living your truth. It is not just for my fellow memberd of the LGBT community (heyyyyy). It has important lessons for everyone.

Page is a poet. His words are imbued with so much meaning and emotion.

He offers a comprehensive look at trans life, and never talks down to his audience. He is an inspiring author. I am so glad I read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Misogyny, Homophobia, Transphobia, Sexual assault, and Rape

icedcoffee's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Addiction, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

macykey's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.25

Firstly, the good. The writing was good and it was a quick read. Now, the not so good. The writing, while good, could be overly flowery. Like Page was trying too hard to sound eloquent and losing their point in the process. The chronology of this book was very hard to keep up with.  Hand in hand with the chronology, the lack of a coherent timeline made it difficult to deduce the purpose of this book. There were parts that made me think it was their relationship to their queerness and how it affected their relationships. And other times I thought it was more of a journal. And other times I thought it was more of a case study on trans-ness’ effect on people’s physical and mental health. It’s possible that this could’ve been all of those things, but the lack of a sequential order made it hard to be any of those things. It was also very explicit. Which isn’t necessarily unheard of in a memoir, but it did surprise me. I will say, there was a point that Page mentioned being infantilized and I found myself slipping into that during parts of this book too, so it does have the ability to make you question yourself and check yourself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Cursing, and Transphobia

Moderate: Deadnaming, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual content