Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Boys, Beasts & Men by Sam J. Miller

5 reviews

crunchylettuce's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

This book hollowed me out and scraped out my insides. Definitely would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, Hate crime, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcohol and Terminal illness

Minor: Drug use, Addiction, and Grief

tjpearce's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Homophobia and Ableism

devynreadsnovels's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Homophobia, Violence, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Sexual assault, Cursing, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Abandonment, Police brutality, Suicide, Terminal illness, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Addiction, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Outing, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Suicidal thoughts

antimony's review

dark emotional reflective

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

4.0

this was pretty good!! as all short story collections are some of the stories are better than others but that's ok. i love sam j miller's writing and i love the way his stories sit slightly outside of defineable genre (like maybe if magical realism was sci-fi or something?) and i like how some of these are like normal people against the backdrop of strange things happening in the world i dont know. my favorites were shattered sidewalks of the human heart, calved, and when your child strays from god

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Suicide

onthesamepage's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

3.0

ARC provided by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

So, what I've learned from reading this, is that I tend to enjoy short story collections/anthologies if:
* I'm a huge fan of the author already
* The stories are overall really excellent and distinct

I think this collection is good, but I didn't fully enjoy it for various reasons. Most of the stories ended up blending together in my head in a way that makes it really hard to remember any of them. The author also used a narrative structure where there was an overarching short story and we would get a short snippet of it in between the other stories. I kept losing the thread of that one, though.

There are definitely some interesting ideas here, but most of the stories didn't stick the landing for me. That said, if you're interested in a collection that centers queer men/boys, I think you might enjoy this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia