Reviews tagging 'Biphobia'

Todos somos villanos by M.L. Rio

41 reviews

elliotttt's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Wholeheartedly recommend if you need a good murder mystery that will keep you guessing, is full of surprises and – in my experience – will leave you SOBBING at the ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Homophobia, and Eating disorder

emspaperbacks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Mental illness, Addiction, Drug abuse, Blood, Death, Grief, and Vomit

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Suicide, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol

Minor: Biphobia and Eating disorder

kastoria's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

A well written book for a debut novel and there are definitely twists that were unexpected. The Shakespeare is difficult to get used to and some of the characters are lukewarm but I did enjoy the book. Oliver is a rather passive protagonist but maybe that was why he was a good choice as a narrator for the story.

Oliver is a Head Empty, No Thoughts kinda guy and allows life to pass him by but it does make for good reading, watching the events unfold and relationships bloom before him without realising or knowing until it's spelled out, even his own. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Death, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Blood

Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexual content, Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, Alcoholism, Blood, and Drug abuse

Minor: Biphobia, Bullying, and Fire/Fire injury

A lot of dark themes covered although none out of place in the novel.

millie's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.5

not a bad book, just a very frustrating book. 

it's also a very hard book to read due to its shakespearean nature, the author spend a lot of times quoting shakespear's play (entire paragraph), so if you're not familiar with old english, shakespeare, tragedy as genre or all of the above, it become very tedious to get through. it also mean a lot of subtilities goes over your head.

(the ending especially but also the ending doesn't make much so you don't lose much, i guess?)

i was unaware book had a lgbtq+ tag attached with it when i first started it and upon learning it had one? yeah, it doesn't deserve it one bit. no book where the author spend a weirdly long amount of time spewing vague transphobia, biphobia and homophobia deserve to have this label or at the very least not without some sort of warning. (also, your book is set in an art school in the 90's and 80% of your protagonists are straight and vaguely homophobic? girl, that's sus.)

objectively, i think this book lack many things but if personally you were satisfied with that this book had to offer, good for you. it probably suit people who like shakespeare better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Drug abuse, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Biphobia and Homophobia

Minor: Misogyny, Transphobia, and Eating disorder

liteartha's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

it’s been a long while since i picked up a book quite as hyped as if we were villains, nor a book that had sat untouched on my shelf for quite so long⁣⁣. i've been intimated by it for ages!
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i’ll first say that i’m immensely glad to have finally read it! and relieved, too, that my trepidation was largely unwarranted. while the story didn’t affect me quite as wholly as i think it would’ve if i had a background in shakespeare or a penchant for theatre, this is a hell of a novel all the same. it took me a couple of days to make it past the first act, but i absolutely sped through it once the messy, spiralling feeling of the book took hold
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i split my time between the print and audio formats of the book and i have to say that the audiobook helped immensely in drawing me in, owed both to the narrator’s voice acting and evident experience with shakespeare (a relief, as i’d been butchering the many many quotes used)

i listened while i read along for act v and the epilogue, which was an excellent choice. i’d found certain things quite predictable but had totally misunderstood where things were heading in the end, which was so good! so good. love to be wrong sometimes
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there is something i can’t quite put my finger on that i didn’t love here. a certain lack of attachment to the characters, maybe, or simply my aforementioned disconnect from shakespeare/theatre but all the same, quite impressed by this one. the hype may be a touch overblown but really, when isn’t it? ⁣⁣

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicide, Homophobia, and Biphobia

Minor: Eating disorder and Body shaming

lucilaroife's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Biphobia, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual content

carolinalopes's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Biphobia, Misogyny, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Minor: Eating disorder

cindespair's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Eating disorder, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicide, and Vomit

steffi_23's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

5.0

I don’t know what happened I was just suddenly really invested in these characters 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Misogyny, Homophobia, and Biphobia

Minor: Blood and Vomit

glitchkitsch's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Homophobia, Biphobia, Misogyny, and Suicide

Minor: Eating disorder

Biphobia as a content warning is a bit subjective, but as a bi person I included it because

Alexander is portrayed as gay for most of the book, but when asked what he is, he basically confirms he's bi or pan without using the word. Oliver also reads as bi or pan eventually because he admits to having loved James romantically while also clearly loving and being attracted to Meredith, and uses the whole 'my love transends gender' thing as his reasoning.

I chalk this up to time period accuracy, being that in the 90s societal attitudes were different about things like bisexuality, but I know it might still bother some people, hence the warning :)