Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

53 reviews

genesisv's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense 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

3.5

a solid 3.5! i don’t know why i was so anxious about reading the 20% i had left of this book but i wanted to finish before the end of the year and im glad i did! it was so nice and heartwarming. i had some parts i didn’t like because it felt so unresolved? but i guess that’s also life, isn’t it?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

bookswithlauren's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative 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

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Cursing, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Outing, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Deportation

atomicbritt's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Blood, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Outing, and Deportation

bg_oseman_fan's review

emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

this book was everything. it was so heartfelt and funny. loved the characters. loved the things i saw coming as much as the things i didn’t. a great coming of age story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Grief, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

batbaby's review against another edition

challenging funny hopeful reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Lesbophobia, Outing, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, and Alcohol

al3xa's review

fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, Self harm, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, and Deportation

raindrops333's review

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

Moderate: Bullying and Deportation

Minor: Racial slurs and Racism

megbert581's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

😭😭😍😍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Bullying and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Domestic abuse and Abandonment

filipa_maia's review

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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, and Classism

Moderate: Deportation

Minor: Police brutality and Alcohol

mamacalidad's review

emotional funny hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, and Deportation

Moderate: Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism