Scan barcode
padfootsbookshelf's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Transphobia
Minor: Deadnaming, Drug abuse, and Suicidal thoughts
So so brilliant. Loved every minute of it. Dark, mysterious and quite a lot of sarcastic humour. However there are a few scenes that could be hard to read for some but very important with some very important topics.beesbumblebooks's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
What I really like about Dawsons novel is that she made up a world for all of them - the places are the same throughout the novels and bop up like easter eggs, which is very exciting when you've read the other novels. After a while one sees even a continuity and how Juno Dawson begins to intertwine the stories, or at least elements, into other ones. It's great and makes me feel like I know shit.
I also want to add that all the sexual encounters are described with so much feeling, not needing to be explicit to transport what's happening and how incredible it feels, what the expierience does with one's mind. I'm always excited when book can capture something so intimate and unique so well. And also the description of being transgender and also struggling with mental illnes are so...yeah, undramatic, I'd say. They take part in everything, a thught here, and observation there, but interwoven in the story, showing it as it is, normal life, the experience of many people who just deal with it between all the other stuff that's happening. It sucks and then there are other things to be thought of. Or it's wonderful and then there comes real life shit.
Yeah, good book.
Graphic: Mental illness and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Drug use
Minor: Alcoholism, Deadnaming, Death, Self harm, and Sexual assault
tqlikesbooks's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
"I've been known to visualise killing up to six people each morning before breakfast."
A fun, edgy Alice in Wonderland retelling with a pansexual trans girl protagonist, who makes questionable decisions but you can't help but root for her.
Y'know YA Contemporary is so not my genre (it wasn't even when I could be considered a 'Young Adult'), but somehow I can always trust Juno to deliver an thoroughly enjoyable story. I like the decadence and excess of her 'London Trilogy' (actually just very loosely related characters/stories in the same setting). I like the humour. It's just a jolly good time.
Did it veer into cheesy British SOAP levels of dramatic ridiculousness for the finale? Absolutely! Did that ruin my enjoyment? Not really!
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, and Mental illness
Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Sexual assault
Minor: Transphobia
lilymurph's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault
beccaand's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Transphobia, and Mental illness
Moderate: Suicide, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Deadnaming, and Cursing
Minor: Sexual content
rebeccafarren's review
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Deadnaming
sophieduncan's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness
Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, and Death
Minor: Deadnaming, Suicide, and Adult/minor relationship
rainbowshelves's review
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Cursing
Minor: Suicide, Death, and Deadnaming