Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Mall Goth by Kate Leth

32 reviews

vixenreader's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

This graphic novel holds a lot of charm and heart while never steering away from tough subject matter, such as grooming. It is a work that encourages trust and intuition after experiencing heartbreak and pain, and who will stand by your side once you are out of the fire. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Biphobia, Infidelity, Abandonment, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Violence, and Bullying

Minor: Pregnancy

Be warned there are themes of grooming, inappropriate relationships between teachers and students, divorce, bad first jobs, crushes on friends’ partners, and estrangement from fathers.

growintogardens's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

I thought it handled the heavy topics well. It just resonated with me as someone who grew up in the same time period and dealt with/friends dealt with the same kind of issues. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Biphobia, Bullying, Homophobia, Pregnancy, and Emotional abuse

spaghett's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Biphobia

Minor: Body shaming, Sexual content, Bullying, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Homophobia

taylorthebookwitch's review

dark emotional lighthearted reflective fast-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

I’m hopeful that Kate Leth will make a sequel! I wanna see what happens to everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

beltaine76's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Infidelity and Adult/minor relationship

livlamentloathe's review

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Pedophilia

Moderate: Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Bullying, Toxic friendship, and Biphobia

reinspired_reader's review

challenging emotional fast-paced

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

2.5

While there is one overarching plot that spans the full timeline of the book (a few months) there are also several smaller storylines that are never really resolved. I kept getting invested in one, only to have it dropped with no real ending, just a full page illustration with no text and then it was on to the next mini plot.

Even the main plot ended like this.

Liv told people about her teacher grooming her

and it just kind of ended there. Additionally, as someone who has experienced this personally, the reaction of the people around Liv to this secret was nice, if unrealistic to me. Liv tells people what has happened, and everyone believes her and sides with her immediately. Happy for her, but that's not what happened most of the time in 2002.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, and Child abuse

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Biphobia

fizzingweasleys's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

the_vegan_bookworm's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

This book gave me so many emotions! The pop culture references reminded me so much of my teenage years, and the nostalgia was such a joy. I was also here for the found family, the female friendship groups ousting shitty dudes, male friends of said shitty dude also siding with the women in their life, the queer-affirming mom!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

audaudaud's review

lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.0

cute friendship!! predatory teacher storyline was handled well!!! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship