Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

379 reviews

lou_loo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Hate crime, and Homophobia

angietheace's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Misogyny, Transphobia, Death, and Racism

Minor: Deadnaming

joeypriestley's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

Very different tone to the last, though with such a gap between books it's to be expected. Especially felt it because of how it picked up exactly where the last left off & reading the books back to back for the first time. Felt like the characters had very quick and unearned switch ups at times.

Also, having a character called Cassandra giving ominous prophecies everyone brushed off made me Stressed. Threaded undertones of dark scary things that maybe did 't weight they should've in the story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Grief

Moderate: Terminal illness and Homophobia

Mentions of aids crisis, several depictions of loved ones of those lost to aids addressing the crisis secondhand through loss

barbarella85's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Murder

antonia_oana19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Violence and War

sundayfever's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

5.0

I don't normally rate the second book in a series higher than the first. But this one really dives in and tackles grief, racism and homophobia in deep ways. A beautiful story about how friendship and love can save people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Homophobia

Moderate: Transphobia, Murder, Racial slurs, and Racism

hds's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

4.25

It wasn't as good as the first one and I felt like some of the dialogue was written solely to make it into a nice quote than to add to the characters/story.
HOWEVER, I enjoyed every second of it and I love these characters and they made me cry. It was nice to see Ari develop throughout the two books and even though I sometimes missed Dante I LOVED Ari's new friends. 
I don't think this sequel existing necessary improves the story as a whole, but it was nice to be able to revisit these characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Transphobia

Moderate: Deadnaming

Minor: War

luisalovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: War

Minor: Homophobia, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

cordiaelly's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Transphobia

Moderate: Death

simply_este's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective 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

3.0

Enjoyed the prose and writing like in the first book, but honestly, the book as a whole felt very unnecessary. The main themes from the first book are continued here as well, so it feels slightly redundant. Dialogue was also slightly eye-roll inducing with how overly philosophical every 17 year old in the book was in every scene 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia and Homophobia