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pinetree_reads's review against another edition
- 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? No
3.0
In the beginning I found it quite boring, since it had too much description of things for my taste and I nearly put it down. Only around chapter 8 I felt like it was going somewhere.
I know that the relationship between Lily and Kath is not the only focal point of the story but I still found it quite short. It didn't feel rushed but was missing.
Making it okay to continue reading but not a necessity born from curiosity about how the story would end.
That said I know I'm not the target group since I'm white so take everything with a grain of salt.
Graphic: Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, and Outing
Moderate: War, Racial slurs, Racism, and Miscarriage
meaghanelizabook's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Xenophobia, and Racism
Moderate: Sexual content, Racial slurs, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Miscarriage
pantslint's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
This book made me cry. It made me do further reading, too. I knew about the insanity of McCarthyism and COINTELPRO from schooling, but didn't know the extent of the effects that the Red Scare had on the Chinese-American community (which aren't surprising, honestly). I didn't know about Dr. Hsue-shen Tsien. Or about the Chinese Confession Program. Or how the Chinese Exclusion Act meant that Chinese immigrants and Chinese-American communities were largely men.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a beautiful coming of age story, and also a diaspora story. It encompasses a lot of what I feel for my own immigrant parents—compassion for the difficulties they've endured and the trauma they harbor, and yet anger for their refusal to see outside of themselves and their community's perceptions. I have so much to say about this book, but I think that's all I can manage for this first read.
Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Alcohol, Racial slurs, and Lesbophobia
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content
gigglesigh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
It's a wonderful book, with great pacing and lovely characters, in one of the cities I spent my life romanticizing, there's not a world where I don't love it.
Minor: Racial slurs
maecave15's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
Moderate: Alcohol, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia
Minor: Sexual content, Deportation, Racial slurs, and Racism
mortiffa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Homophobia and Racism
Minor: Racial slurs
victoriastarkid's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Homophobia
Moderate: Lesbophobia, Outing, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Minor: Toxic friendship, Sexual content, and Racial slurs
bmceleney's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Homophobia and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Racial slurs
Minor: War
tabea1409's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Child abuse, Cursing, Deportation, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Cultural appropriation, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Outing, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexism
katbotelho's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
this book felt like an important read bc it made me reflect on my own experience as a queer person and how lucky i am to be living in a time where it’s much more safe to be who i am and how different my life wouldve looked if i lived in the 50s
Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Racial slurs, Toxic friendship, and Xenophobia