Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

42 reviews

redheadorganist's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Alcohol, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Lesbophobia, Outing, Pregnancy, Transphobia, War, Animal death, Death, Homophobia, and Sexual content

mangopeachfuzz's review

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content

navayiota's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

For me, this was one of those books that I procrastinated reading cause I knew I would love it. And I did. I finished the audiobook in one day. I related to both of the protagonists quite a lot, but especially Dante... At times it hurt, cause we are just so similar. At times I found myself pausing to collect my thoughts, after the story clicked a little too perfectly with something that has happened to me, and it always felt profound. It was nice to read about healthy families for once. 

And I was so happy when they ended up together. I was worried that they wouldnt

 
This is a book I will continue to think about, and I will be reading the sequel asap.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Transphobia, Car accident, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing, Medical content, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual content

alicia_g's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional lighthearted 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

4.25

A good book, but it was a bit slow for me at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Homophobia, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Grief, Drug use, Car accident, Violence, War, Sexual content, Racism, Physical abuse, and Murder

sorcha's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Car accident, Death, Grief, Hate crime, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Cancer, Alcohol, Drug use, Murder, Sexual content, Mental illness, Addiction, Medical content, Death, and Pregnancy

elliereadsthings's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted 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

A really cute story about a boy falling in love with another boy, what more could you want???

For some reason I absolutely LOVE the parents in this story, they’re amazing. I may even love them more than Dante and Ari themselves. 

The start was a little slow, but I swear this book just got better and better the further in I got.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

“Dante. I really liked him. I really, really liked him.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Hate crime

Moderate: Homophobia, Alcohol, Drug use, Cursing, and Sexual content

Minor: Murder, Grief, Classism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Transphobia, War, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, and Cancer

triangular_pascal's review against another edition

lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Death, Homophobia, Murder, Drug use, Hate crime, Medical content, Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Cursing, War, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Violence

your_nonbinary_icon's review

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing fast-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

5.0

My favorite book ever! Beautiful and thoughtful.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Homophobia, and Hate crime

Minor: Sexual content

a_sleepy_berry's review

adventurous emotional funny 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

3.5

The plot was nice but the pacing was too slow and the writing style was confusing at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Outing, Sexual content, Drug use, Medical trauma, Violence, and Transphobia

Moderate: Death and Adult/minor relationship

tezariah's review

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Animal death, Car accident, Drug use, Grief, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and War