Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

215 reviews

marimaia's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• 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? Yes

5.0

hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked.

Foi muito estranho ler a tradução pt-br pela primeira vez, e não posso dizer que foi uma experiência boa nesse ponto. Tem erros mas, principalmente, muitas traduções não fizeram sentido, algumas por serem frases extremamente toscas (quando no original são frases bem mais sensíveis e importantes), enquanto outras por serem palavras que ninguém nunca fala ou sequer sabe o significado.
De resto, continua sendo meu livro queridinho. Não tem palavras que expliquem como eu amo essa história e como ela é importante pra mim, e cada vez que leio fico mais grata de ter os foxes na minha vida. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Minor: Suicide, Self harm, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Blood, and Vomit

katieo156's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

You just had to be there (tumblr 2013). I can't rate it or defend the absolute nonsense within it, but I also have reread it 3 times. At its core, there is a small, traumatized man whose ranks a fictional, uber-violent version of lacrosse over his own life. Check trigger warnings because too many apply! This author has never read the DSM and it shows, so take it all with a grain of salt and turn your brain off.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Murder, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Violence, Toxic friendship, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Suicidal thoughts

lani__'s review

dark emotional tense fast-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

4.25

On a purely technical level was this all that great? No. But it was genuinely so entertaining I couldn't put it down. This is definitely not a book to go into thinking that it's going to be anything other than a fun time but honestly, that's what's so good about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug use, Death, Alcohol, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, and Ableism

Minor: Suicide attempt

aschuylerlizard's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-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

4.0

this is like haikyuu but everyone is mad and traumatised and also wtf is that ending i'm still shocked

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Child abuse, and Cursing

Moderate: Vomit and Sexual assault

Minor: Murder and Homophobia

apolen's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Homophobia, Bullying, and Violence

Minor: Vomit

addssubract's review against another edition

emotional funny informative mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Drug use, Blood, Murder, Mental illness, Gore, Death of parent, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail

aroyalpitch's review

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship and Homophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Violence, and Sexual harassment

whoknowss's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

A lot of characters are introduced at once, most without much description , so it was a little hard to keep track of who was who in the beginning. I had to look at the wiki page pictures/descriptions. Some of the writing was pretty cheesy but an enjoyable read. The whole Columbia thing was fucked up though.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Alcohol, Drug use, Homophobia, and Sexual harassment

axlroz's review against another edition

dark funny tense 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Bullying

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Acephobia/Arophobia, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Cursing, Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, and Murder

lennie_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Did i understand Exy? No
Did i like the characters? I honestly don't know
Could i put it down? Also No

Something about this book dug its murderous lil fingers into my brain. 

Think Haikyuu meets the Yakuza. 

And for the love of god check the trigger warnings before reading this book because wow. 

There are a lot of slurs used in the book, a lot of terrible things (past and present) that happen, a confusing made up sport and some very damaged and toxic characters but idk, something about it just makes me want to delve deeper into the story and characters. 

I'm genuinely not sure of my rating for this and there were parts that were very uncomfortable for me to read.

CW: murder, physical abuse, child abuse, death, overdose, drug use, drug abuse, spiking, rape joke, use of the r slur and the f slur, death of a parent, burning a corpse, homophobia, violence, addiction, blood, injury, toxic relationship, mental illness, 
state mandated drug use (this one is absolutely bizarre). 
And probably more tbh 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Death of parent, Violence, Alcohol, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery and Sexual harassment

Minor: Biphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Ableism