Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin

16 reviews

snazz07's review

emotional 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Homophobia, Outing, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Sexism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Medical content, and Forced institutionalization

vagaybond's review

challenging dark emotional sad

• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

I lack spoons for a review rn but want to give heads up that there is SA and suicide described on page, and suicidal impulse, hate crimes (a few), violent child abuse and transphobic murder of children, and generally other stuff that trans teenagers go through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Self harm, Mental illness, Grief, Violence, Stalking, Rape, Transphobia, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Outing, Child death, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Bullying, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

rafacolog's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Transphobia, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, and Hate crime

nurlou's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

kyking0117's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

1.0

This lacked a lot of authenticity that I like to find within the LGBTQ books I read. The ending was also a let down. Just felt extremely cliche and lacking in depth, as if someone looked up what being gender-fluid meant and decided to based a character off of it.

Also a complete lack of pronoun usage or any acknowledgment of the importance of pronouns to the trans (and human) experience. I had to come back and make my review even lower, the more I thought about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Transphobia, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Self harm

im_just_vidu's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense 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

It's my first ever read of the year. And I should pat myself for choosing a book that isn't bad, so that might represent my whole reading year. I'm glad that this was my first read of the year. I don't have any bad things to say, so you might wonder why I didn't give the full 5 stars. There's no such reason. I like this book. It's informative and makes me feel valid. It just didn't hit the deepest part of my heart. Maybe because I expected a little bit more in the end. I love the way they accept themselves. I didn't feel it to the core. But I would happily recommend it to others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Hate crime, Bullying, Homophobia, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

Minor: Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

megthelemon's review

challenging emotional informative 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

queenfury's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Dysphoria, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Child death, Outing, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

mothpetrichor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Outing, and Hate crime

brookey8888's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring 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? Yes

4.75

Wow. What a important story. It is very hard to read at times, but there are a lot of light moments as well. I really loved Riley as our character. They were just very relatable in many ways like being awkward. I thought the friendships and the family relationships were so important. I learned a lot and think other people will as well. Definitely look up trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Fatphobia, Abandonment, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Sexual assault, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence