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The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

23 reviews

bookish_perseus's review against another edition

3.5

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Biphobia, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Outing, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation

Minor: Body shaming, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Vomit, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Colonisation

peach_haze's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

Minor: Self harm

callme_tippy's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring 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: No

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This is the type of Young Adult fiction I like! 

This book has actually renewed my faith in YA fiction. I used to really like YA fiction in high school and I assumed I just stopped liking it, but this book has renewed my faith in the genre. 

Turns out I don't hate YA, I just hate a lot YA books. But it is good to know that good YA still exists! 

Thank you  Sonora Reyes for renewing my hope in finding YA books that I will enjoy 😭.

I loved Yami, Bo, Cesar, and Jamal (I read this via audio so some of these might be spelled wrong). 
I liked the realistic approach to family relationships and dynamics. I think this handled and portrayed a hard situations in a believable and well rounded way. 

I think Yami's relationships with her mother, brother, and father, were representative, real, and human. 

I loved every part of this book, would recommend! 

**adds Sonora Reyes back log to my tbr**

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Classism, Deportation

paperquilt's review

5.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Outing, Deportation

anni_banani's review

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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

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Sonora Reyes you are one of my favorite authors after reading this book. 5 stars for healing my heart

First let me say that I completely trust Sonora after reading both of their books. This book covers plenty of traumatic issues and character's struggle but I never was triggered. The content warning in the beginning of the book enough for me. I was tense at times but my butt was relaxed rather than tense enough to make a diamond from coal. 

I was in love with both MCs, loved them together, loved their romance. no lesbian tropes here! The best lesbian romance I've ever read period.

this was a fast read that pulled me in and I gobbled it up so fast. I was happily surprised by the ending!

Why this 5 stars for me - The book healed me in so many ways baby girl

• seriously the queer relationships were that good. yay no toxic bullshit!
• I loved the characters so much. sometimes i'm not that lucky...
• I related so much to the family dynamics and really felt seen the way they were represented
• I loved the mother's turn around. It was healing to see that as well as see how some parents will never pick up the wake up call. I was sus of the mother Maria but she really earned her spot. parents struggling with accepting their children, this is a great place to start
• my first Indigenous Mexican MC
• really meaningful discussion of Race and Cultural Identity
• struggling with self acceptance while still having pride and love for yourself
• The evolution of In Lak’ech Ala K’in- i can feel the stiches on my heart from that one
• the way Bo absolved Yamilet of her catholic guilt on confession day though thats not how it was for Caser

im writing a sequel in my head, its so good!

Fan made read along playlist that is so effing good and incredibly specific https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5WYsthkEiPGBifWlYVijvg?si=0zLn1iSnQeOLfBGbnAkZYQ&pi=u-HaacJAh-SM-u

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Outing, Toxic friendship, Deportation

Minor: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts

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ruthiedr89's review

4.25

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Grief, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Outing, Classism, Deportation

Moderate: Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Hate crime, Violence

lemoni's review

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia

Moderate: Biphobia, Self harm, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Deportation

Minor: Biphobia, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

rebeccals_3825's review

4.75

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia

francijo's review

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Homophobia

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt

filipa_maia's review

2.0

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I had high hopes for this book, but it disappointed me. Don't take me the wrong way: this is a very important book about a very important topic. How many teenagers (and adults) suffer in silence, trying to hyde who they are? When the rejection comes from your own house, what can you expect form everyone else?

I felt sorry for Yammi many times throughout this book: trying to be straight, feeling the catholic guilt... The part where she starts saving money waiting to be kicked out of her house broke my heart.

Now let's get to the negative points: this is the slowest of slow paced if I've ever read - we spend half the book just getting to know Yammi and then everything is rushed towards the end; the lack of communications between that family just was a deal breaker for me; her mother constantly showing love and affection towards Cesar and never Yammi; the mother being a complete homophobic and then, by the end, everything is reversed; the father (I don't need to say more); the way things turn out to be at the end... was just 'meh'...

Anyway, maybe this book was written for a different target audience, maybe I'm just not the right age. Despite all this, I think this book can help someone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Classism

Moderate: Deportation

Minor: Police brutality, Alcohol