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The Miseducation of Cameron Post Movie Tie-In Edition by Emily M. Danforth

27 reviews

quinn24's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

This was a reread, I read this when I was 14 and it was the first book with a lesbian main character that I ever read. In hindsight it probably shouldn’t have been but what are you gonna do? This was very emotional, all the characters are complex and feel very human, even the characters I hated I couldn’t help but feel a connection to. I think it did a really good job of being nuanced when it came to the issue of conversion therapy. It shows how harmful it is, even in the small ways, even when you don’t believe what they’re teaching you. It allowed the characters to be angry and to hurt but it also acknowledges that the people doing this harm genuinely believe that they are doing the right thing and that they are saving their souls. It’s a very fine thing to balance, to be able to acknowledge all of these things but not seem like you’re excusing them and I thought it was done really well. There are some coming-of-age YA cliches of course, and I noticed that the tense was a little funny in some places because it’s supposed to be that Cameron is telling the story from later on in her life. But overall it was very good and I know a lot of people hate the ending but I personally loved it. It made me cry so.

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writingcaia's review against another edition

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emotional informative reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

Finding yourself amidst great loss and a messed up decision by your new family, this is what Cameron is going to go through after losing her parents and having her first kiss.
A coming of age book about grief and queerness. It’s a beautiful tale of finding your self as a gay person, of going against convention, of loving and having your heart broke, but it is also about religion and society being against who you are, and trying to change you by force, and if you’re not changed, which you won’t be but if you believe then you’ll hate yourself for not being able to be different.
Although Cameron does go to a conversion board school/camp, it is not those hardcore ones you might have seen or heard about, still it’s messed up, and obviously doom to fail no matter how the person eventually leaves it. It can f you out a lot, especially if one already has low self worth.
It was also about looking back at who you were, who your parents are as persons and who they are in you.
I really enjoyed the characters she meets at the conversion school, they really brought something extra to the whole queer plot diversity.
It was an engaging story but somewhat I was wishing for more, thus the missing ⭐️.

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mooandshoe's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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tabooshi's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

A beautiful, messy book about loss, secrets, and what it means to be young and gay and figuring yourself out. Cameron is so easy to love. It’s both an absolutely thrill and very painful to watch her move through Cameron’s adolescence. It’s even more wonderful to see her forge relationships and move from a place of shame to pride. Danworth wrote the kind of novel you never want to end.

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noa_27moony's review against another edition

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challenging emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

i thought i was gonna have a hard time reading this book but i really enjoyed it and think it's an important story, very authentic (as far as i can tell) and also fascinating to me, who has very little knowledge of any kind of religious stuff especially christianity
it was at times hard to read because it covers heavy topics and uses slurs that are authentic to the time but still made me wince sometimes but i think that's a personal experience
i also found it interesting how even though objectively ruth and rick and lydia seem like people you would hate for what they've done but they're described so human it makes it kinda hard sometimes
great book would definitely recommend

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