Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

6 reviews

helllceyy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Violence and Outing

Minor: Cursing and Child death

1quillb's review against another edition

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

4.75

This only thing that prevents me from rating this 5 stars is the (annoyingly) heavy emphasis placed upon keeping Poppy’s identity a secret—I didn’t, and continue to not, understand why not telling everyone that she’s trans is an issue. But seeing as this is written by the mother of a trans kid, I guess I can understand why it focused so much on the effects of “hiding” her identity. I just don’t personally see how it could be a problem.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Hate crime, Outing, Child death, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Medical content

Moderate: Cancer, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Blood, Animal death, Death, and Terminal illness

Minor: Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Grief, Miscarriage, Child death, and Cursing

kmayatte's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Deadnaming, Violence, Chronic illness, and Transphobia

Moderate: Gun violence, Bullying, Medical content, and Cursing

lynnmarier99's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, and Transphobia

swaggyfrog's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Outing, and Transphobia

Minor: Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Medical content

gagne's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

a heartfelt book which addresses and makes palatable complex topics of parenting a transgender child, raising boys, moving for family, and work-love-parenting relationships over nearly two decades

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Gun violence, Bullying, Child death, and Cursing