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The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

49 reviews

violetgarden's review

adventurous emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, and Deportation

Minor: Alcohol

ziemia_do_nany's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

abrachmann's review

emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

I cannot begin to summarize the love I harbor within my heart for Yamilet! I wept, and laughed, and cheered along with Yami, every step of the way.

Sonora Reyes has so accurately captured the feelings and experiences of being young and queer. As someone who grew up queer, and not white, in a Catholic school, this book resonates with me on a spiritual (lol) level. I felt like the small queer child living inside of me was genuinely nurtured and held by this story. If I could personally thank them for writing this book, I would. 

Truly, this is a story I would love to share with my kids some day.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Deportation

casually_booking's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful 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

4.25

The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School was so good. The cast of characters was dynamic and the setting of catholic school really brought to the forefront discussions on race, class, immigration status, religion, sexuality, and sexual orientation. Very intersectional. As someone who transferred to Catholic school for a few years, many of Yamilet’s experience rang true for me as a Person of Color. I absolutely loved Bo, and as a transracial adoptee, I see myself reflected in her. The conversations she had about embracing her culture on her terms really resonated and the author wrote these sections very well. My only critique of the book was that it felt a little long, but it had a big pay off in the end. I found myself laughing and crying throughout the book.  There was some gutting parts. Yami, Bo, and Cesar’s experiences as queer teens of Color truly demonstrated the uniqueness of everyone’s journey. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Xenophobia, Grief, Lesbophobia, Outing, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

booksdogsandcoffee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-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

5.0

WHY AREN’T MORE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS BOOK!??

Yamilet is forced to a new school to help her younger brother who is always getting in trouble, and also after being outted by her best friend. Being Mexican at an all catholic school isn’t easy, but being Mexican and queer is even harder. 

At her new school Yami is determined to stay in the closet at this school, but one of her new friends Bo is making it extremely hard for her to stay there. 

This book is so profound and talks about so many topics in a beautiful way. It dissects the inter workings of homophobia in the Mexican community and families. Breaks down and discusses hard topics like immigration, abortions, gay marriage, suicide, family pressure(felt very Louisa from encanto at times and it was amazing) in a way that it isn’t the main topics of the books. But is handled so well. 

Lesbinana’s Guide to Catholic School is an absolute must read. I loved every thing about this book and the audiobook was phenomenal. 

Cw
Racism
Suicidal attempt
Homophobia 
Biphobia
Lesbiphobia
Religious bigotry
Outing
Bullying 
Mental illness
Classism
Deportation
Toxic friendship

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Deportation

mirroaoror's review

emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

studiouspoppy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-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? No

4.5

I loved it! My expectations were high and somehow this book exceeded them. The way Yami talks about her roots and her culture, the fear and the homophobia in the latinx community, the sexist culture that favores the boys and gives responsibility without trust to girls… somehow while having a very different experience, i felt really seen. I would have liked if there were at least one latinx character with light skin since somehow we still are kind of invisible to the rest of the world, but i’ll forgive it since the topic of colorism was considered and that’s huge in the latin community. 
enjoyed so much the way their indigenous culture was so beautifully written into the plot, the way Yami talks about colonization so casually, and she seed the impact of colonization in everyday things, I try to do that and I think people should do it more too.

I loved the plot, the gay panic, I loved the bi representation through a boy, because it feels like bisexuality is mostly female in mainstream culture. I also loved that there were queer siblings, like that’s common, why is it so rare in books?
Finally, that ending had me tearing up. I loved Bo so much. The whole fake girlfriend thing was kind of predictable and hilarious, also the gay panicking and overthinking everything? so relatable! made me go back to my baby gay memories

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Outing, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Colonisation

hoagie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, and Outing

i_am_selinam's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Lesbophobia