Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan

21 reviews

_bethypaige's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Alcoholism

Moderate: Domestic abuse

mantisshrimp's review

hopeful reflective relaxing 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Domestic abuse and Outing

violet_pages's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

Moderate: Physical abuse, Bullying, Biphobia, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, and Alcoholism

Minor: Car accident, Transphobia, and Domestic abuse

iksme's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

3.75

I love this book Morgan is such a dense idiot though, and I found it unlikely that such an active lesbian in the community would even consider

outing someone and would definitely consider that they don't want to come out to a unaccepting mother.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Outing, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Alcohol

palomabird's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

3.5

Overall a fun, sapphic read! I really liked the alternating POV chapters between our 2 main characters!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

indydanniejones's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.25

ANGST. Enemies to lovers. More angst. There is a lot of miscommunication between the characters and it can be a little difficult to sympathize with them because you know the problems are easily solvable id they'd just talk to each other. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Domestic abuse

marleysbookshelf's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

Minor: Bullying

sandy_21's review

emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Biphobia, and Bullying

Minor: Car accident, Domestic abuse, and Transphobia

kostkova_barca's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

lee8's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

2.0

I really wanted to enjoy this book but ended up only enjoying the last 40-50 pages. The characters (specifically Morgan) frustrated me all throughout the entire book. She was constantly getting mad at Ruby because of reasons including not being out which is out of Ruby's control. Considering Morgan went through the whole private school thing, I would expect her to be more understanding. She continues to expect absolutely zero homophobia and I feel like a better lesson for this book would be to stop trying to make everyone like you. As a queer teen myself, we all quickly learn not everybody will like us, and that doesn't make it okay, but there will always be people who disapprove ANYTHING you do in life. This girl needs someone to slap some sense into her if she thinks the private school incident is the end of the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Homophobia

Minor: Alcohol and Outing