Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

660 reviews

miel2712's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Suicide attempt

ichigoichie's review

4.0

emotional funny 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: Complicated

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The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School has a lot of “cliché” YA story elements. However, it features characters you don’t always see in those types of stories. POC lesbians don’t always get this kind of novel and it’s important to tell these stories too. Cliché doesn’t mean bad. 

I enjoyed reading the book and the cast of characters were all a lot of fun.

I’m really happy Yami and Bo got together and even Cesar and Jamal started to make up. Seeing Mrs. Flores accept her two queer children after all of Yami’s worry as well was also really great to see.

I do feel the book sometimes had too much going on so some topics couldn’t get the attention they maybe needed such as Cesar’s suicide attempt. But overall I had a good time reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Religious bigotry

Moderate: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

mikkane's review against another edition

3.75

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Racism

mommateresa's review

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Deportation

Minor: Police brutality

shivy03's review

3.0

funny inspiring lighthearted 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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I would highly recommend this to a young teenager, but I feel like I am a bit out of the age range of this book. I don’t like a lot of order social media references in a story but that just a personal preference. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Hate crime, Homophobia, Outing

therewillbenewsuns's review

5.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Deportation

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

charlottefauchon's review

2.5

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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the story was sweet and heartbreaking at the same time, but idk i was just not a fan of the writing style or dialogue. lots of telling instead of showing. maybe that was due to listening to the audiobook instead of reading it? hard to know. i 10000% believe we need more intersectional queer stories like this but i was just not the biggest fan of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Deportation

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

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

vivien_hamburg's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

Minor: Violence