Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales, Cale Dietrich

254 reviews

jensynaw's review against another edition

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse and Homophobia

jennifer_bush_73's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

3.5

Objectively, it’s a good book. And Ii enjoyed listening to it. For me, this book was more serious than what I was looking for. The toxic mother and managers not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Outing, Addiction, Bullying, Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, and Gaslighting

gcoulsxn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, and Alcohol

sofia_reads01's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Drug abuse

jazzy_t's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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? No

4.5

Enjoyable read. Kinda fun to read if you are active in any boy band fan base. Think it tackled some important subjects but kept a light hopeful feel.

Felt the ending was a little lack-luster.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual content, and Drug abuse

Minor: Homophobia

camill3's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

i actually enjoyed this book, which surprised me, because i don't really like reading YA anymore. this was different, and because i'm a larrie it hit a little close to home, lol. 
it is very easy to read (but there are heavy topics!) and there are lots of cute moments between Zach and Ruben. there are also some cringey scenes

like the one when all the moms met and tried to sue the management??

but overall it was very enjoyable :) 
maybe it would have worked a bit better if one of the two MC's faced the problems Angel faced, because this storyline definitely also deserved a book, and in my opinion it took up a bit too much space.

we didn't get to see Angel's struggles from his POV, it just doesn't really make sense why he struggled and not the MC's.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Drug use and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia

miss__manga__'s review against another edition

emotional inspiring slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Loved the plot but it felt like something was lacking. The ending left a lot to be desired. I felt like it was very weak and not the right place to end it - I don’t mind an open ending but it wasn’t incredibly satisfying. 

I feel like I did not know all the characters, such as Jon and Angel, but even Zach and Reuben to some degree.

There were some wonderful moments and I cried once, but overall something felt like it was lacking.

I keep moving between a 3 and 4 star review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia and Mental illness

const_elle_ations's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Homophobia and Vomit

lotoblanco's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Drug use, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Alcohol and Homophobia

pheebabeeba_'s review against another edition

emotional funny 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

4.25

I enjoyed the character writing in this book. It was fun to see the character perspectives switch. It kept me engaged. 

The whole boy band thing was super fun to read. Reminds me of boy band fanfics back when boy bands were super big.

I was a little frustrated that the main conflict of the story is one you can predict from the title alone (the coming-out conflict).

Perhaps that was the point but I don’t like predicting the ending of a book before I’ve even read it.

Luckily, this didn’t thwart me ‘cus the book had several other interesting conflicts.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Homophobia, and Drug abuse