Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall

26 reviews

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny sad 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? It's complicated

2.0

The Tarleton twins are insufferable and humorless and Catherine Moreland would NEVER. 

Also I just felt bad for Valentine the whole time. He was victim blamed for getting shot, and for breaking a chair he was tied up in… that poor dude deserved so much better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Confinement

Moderate: Kidnapping, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Death of parent, and Gun violence

miss_vonnegut's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-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

3.5

This wasn't my favorite queer romance but it had its merits! It's historical and everyone is queer, there's a gender-fluid character, and (of course) an HEA. On the downside, the drama felt overdone and after a while I just wanted everyone to have an actual conversation. There's some internalized homophobia (sort of?) but

the main character grows a lot and his mom at the end is such a lovely good human

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia

wilybooklover's review

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

3.0

As a farce, this was ridiculously funny and camp and over the top. As a romance... it just wasn't quite there for me. Valentine was an idiot one too many times and the twins verged on too mean one too many times as well (especially Arabella). If both of those aspects were pared back just a touch then I think I'd have loved this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gun violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

kathleenmcg's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Classism, and Gun violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent and Violence

anniereads221's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Homophobia, and Sexism

saeruh's review

adventurous funny lighthearted

4.5

Such a fun read! The Tarleton twins were so delightfully over the top dramatic and Valentine was so delightfully oblivious to anything really. These aren’t SUPER fleshed out characters but I did feel emotionally attached to them while I was reading. Definitely made me laugh so much and at least put a smile on my face. From the cover, I thought this would be more of YA novel but this is definitely more of a new adult romance with sex scenes written out in detail, which is fine, just not something I expected at all going into it. Also, while is written in a historical setting, it’s much more of a modern romance/love story so I don’t if I would technically fully consider it as historical, maybe more like an alternative version of what history could have been. As a queer person myself, I loved how all of the characters (except for like two) were all delightfully queer! I’m not quite sure why this has a lower rating because I really did have fun reading it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Homophobia, and Misogyny

Minor: Death of parent

fromjuliereads's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted 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

3.5

This was a fun read! I admit that I despised Arabella 😅 but I really liked all of the other characters, especially Valentine and Peggy! It was exactly what the back of the book promised - a good romp and pomp 😂 with some adventures of course!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Cursing, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Gun violence, Homophobia, and Misogyny

breadbees's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Classism, Cursing, Sexism, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Grief, Blood, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Outing, and Abandonment

katiehasanxiety's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted 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

3.5

Ok this book could and should have been way shorter. But holy steamy Batman! also I’d die for Bonnie.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, and Homophobia

purplepenning's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.5

When Alexis Hall describes his book as "a big gay regency romp about a overly dramatic beautiful rainbow sunshine unicorn + a overly dramatic demisexual grumpy duke, going on a cross-country chase" and adds that the unofficial subtitle is "Dude, Where's My Curricle?" and it's the "campiest and silliest and most fun thing" he's ever written — believe him. 

The grumpy/sunshine combo is gold. I disagree with reviewers who felt Bonny Mr. Sunshine was overly mean to His Grace Valentine Grumpy Pants, but he was certainly in an unenviable position between his best friend and sister, His Grace, and his own, you know, precarious existence. And while a zero to 100 relationship for a demisexual main character doesn't quite work for me, I also disagree that His Grace was "just fine the way he was, oh em gee, just leave him alone already." He was not quietly content — he was miserably unaware and misguided and headed for further misery. Most of the side characters are great, though the satirized gothic heroine sister is just grating. And the plot is, well, a careening mess that's somewhat too driven by the bullying sexism of the day, anachronistic overcorrections, and aro understandings clashing with gothic dramatics, but mostly it's just a vehicle for fun shenanigans in the countryside. It's all undeniably over the top, British, queer, chaotic, funny, annoying, graphic, and sometimes genuinely touching and lovely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Gun violence

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Cursing, Kidnapping, Bullying, Confinement, and Sexism

Minor: Body shaming, Classism, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Alcohol, and Animal death

There are also a couple of key scenes (very sweet) that feature bees, and some brief talk/imaginings of spiders