Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Act Cool by Tobly McSmith

21 reviews

lamanda_quiring's review

medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.75

I was bored for most of this, but the last 80 or so pages were pretty good. I didn’t care for August and his fake personas and his acting. I wanted him to just be real with his friends and tell them the truth. I feel like he could have avoided being outed if he had told his friends about his parents. 
But he did have good character growth and I liked the ending of the story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Homophobia

jodierose14's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Gaslighting, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

wiktoria_bojda's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Homophobia

starasphodel's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria, Deadnaming, and Homophobia

cvidean's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, and Homophobia

kaylaellis's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Suicide, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

aimzthereader's review against another edition

dark 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Deadnaming, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Outing and Alcohol

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Abandonment

mystic_bookwyrm's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

I liked this book overall, but the thing I had trouble with was the way August was always acting a part…. Now it gets addressed later and it makes sense, I just didn’t feel like the author went about it quite the right way. A lot of times it didn’t feel like it was coming from a place of self preservation but of trying to get what he wanted from other people. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Deadnaming, and Homophobia

thatbookwhisperer's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry

Moderate: Transphobia and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Homophobia and Deadnaming

imstephtacular's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Deadnaming, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Homophobia, Grief, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Cursing, Mental illness, and Outing

Minor: Drug use, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Alcohol, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Sexual content