Reviews tagging 'Acephobia/Arophobia'

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

4 reviews

idiot_witch's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense

• 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: Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Death, Transphobia, Murder, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Religious bigotry, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Body horror, and Hate crime

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Outing, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, Blood, Vomit, Biphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, Deadnaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Xenophobia, and Grief

torismazarine's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Misogyny, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Blood, Death, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, War, Xenophobia, Biphobia, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, and Hate crime

eddiehits's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Outing, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Vomit, Sexual assault, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Genocide, Homophobia, Murder, Mental illness, Abandonment, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Sexual harassment, Torture, Acephobia/Arophobia, Biphobia, Violence, and War

flowerparrish's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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

5.0

This book won my heart early on and fully delivered on my expectations. It has the diverse queer rep we need, and particularly the rep young readers are starving for. This is a book that sets out with this goal: to make everyone who doesn't fit neatly into the expected box of what your label should look like feel seen. Those elements of diverse queer rep coupled with a nuanced representation of religious trauma and neurodivergence, made this book not only healing for my mid-20s self, but made me desperately grateful it exists for teens today, because wow could teenage me have used a book like this. A stunning debut, not without faults but phenomenal in spite of them. I can't wait to see what this author comes out with next; I'll definitely be keeping my eye on him.

Note: This book contains many potential triggers, but in my opinion all triggering topics are handled with grace. Please do not read them this book if you cannot handle these themes, but if you are worried about if they're handled well vs poorly, I think they are well handled and the book is healing because of that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Ableism, Body horror, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Bullying, and Cursing