Reviews tagging 'Outing'

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin

7 reviews

peachani's review

emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Outing

Moderate: Dementia

Minor: Religious bigotry, Death, Confinement, Infidelity, War, and Emotional abuse

midnightmarauder's review

emotional lighthearted sad 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

4.0

Bingo Love is a story narrated by Hazel Johnson, who is retelling her story to a woman she knows. The woman was just kicked out of her parents' home after they discovered her attraction to other women, and she asks if she can stay with Hazel, who says yes, and tells her the story about how she went through a similar thing in her youth. 

I don't have too much to comment on about this story. It's an easy read that tugs on the heartstrings, which is what I like in a book. I felt a lot of love for the characters and their plight to acceptance of not only the people around them, but themselves. 

The only thing I didn't like (which is very minor) is how James, Hazel's husband,

reacted negatively to his wife's coming out. It is implied that he went through a similar situation during his time in the army, where he says he fell in love with someone he met there. So, chances are, he could just be experiencing self-hatred and negatively took it out on Hazel. But, that doesn't make what he said okay.

All in all, if you're looking for something easy to read, this is the book for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Homophobia, Biphobia, and Grief

Moderate: Outing

Minor: Death

violet_pages's review

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, and Dementia

Moderate: Biphobia, Outing, Death, Emotional abuse, and Infidelity

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexual content, War, Misogyny, and Medical content

alyoops's review

emotional reflective 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Outing, Homophobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Dementia, Infidelity, and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy

nyoom's review against another edition

fast-paced

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Ableism, Misogyny, Sexual content, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Outing, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, and Racism

Moderate: War, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

Minor: Alcohol

brookey8888's review

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

3.25

This was good. I just didn’t love the cheating aspect. I understand and get why it happened and does happen in real life, but I just don’t like cheating. Also it made me a little uncomfortable that they haven’t seen each other in like 30 years or something and she just kissed her. I do like the representation borne race and sexuality. It was cute fore the most part, oh also there was like hardly any bingo not that it matters but still. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Outing, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, War, Grief, and Lesbophobia

emfass's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

Really really wonderful representation - two queer women of color falling in love!! The art was gorgeous, too.

One incredibly special moment was towards the end, (small spoiler)

there was an image of a woman with her shirt off (bra on), and she was expressing self-consciousness about the state of her belly and stretch marks from having been pregnant with five children over the course of her life--and those things are very much represented in the image.

Besides people I specifically follow on Instagram, this was the first time I had seen this represented in visual media format, and I cannot overstate the emotional impact that had on me. Truly wonderful.

The dialogue was preeeeetty simplistic for my taste - I wished we could get even more layers to the story, it almost moved too fast for me. But did I still love it? Yes. Did I cry during an 88-page fast-paced graphic novel that took me 30 minutes to read? Very much yes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Pregnancy, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Dementia and Infidelity