Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

45 reviews

sxndaze's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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

4.5

These are all things that I know, but none of this is really important. I used to think it was vital to know things, to feel safe in the learning and recounting of facts. I used to think it was possible to know enough to escape from the panic of not know- ing, but I realise now that you can never learn enough to protect yourself, not really.

gorgeous written and hauntingly romantic 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Grief

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Lesbophobia, Sexual content, and Homophobia

biobeetle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Body horror, Confinement, and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent and Terminal illness

Minor: Homophobia and Cursing

jcshells's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Suicide, Abandonment, Death of parent, Grief, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, and Confinement

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol and Homophobia

kaanda's review against another edition

slow-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

5.0

Super engaging throughout. Romantic in the weirdest ways while stringing along a story that was so fun to put together as the book went on. Sad, but rewarding with a ton of beautiful lines.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Dementia

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Homophobia, Vomit, Gore, Violence, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Confinement, and Suicide

rebeccadiv's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Moderate: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Gore

Minor: Homophobia, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

hedsek's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

Truly an amazing read. Extremely gripping and the descriptions of how things used to be are so realistic and slice of life that it becomes heartbreaking. The horror elements go really well with the emotional stuff.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Grief, and Body horror

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Death, Vomit, Eating disorder, and Terminal illness

Minor: Death of parent, Cancer, Lesbophobia, Gore, Homophobia, Chronic illness, and Emotional abuse

Eye stuff

caseyreadslol's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Body horror

Minor: Homophobia and Sexual content

emilyandthewhippet's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Blood, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Sexism, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Terminal illness

acorny's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? No

5.0

Absolutely incredible book, exploring love, grief, trauma and relationships changing through all these things. depicted so beautifully through the lens of a science fiction/horror novel. It felt appropriately suspenseful and the ending was heartbreaking despite my anticipating its ending awhile before. I will be thinking about this book for a long time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Vomit, Confinement, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Grief, Suicide, and Homophobia

jessereadsthings's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Minor: Lesbophobia and Homophobia