Reviews tagging 'Lesbophobia'

All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky

8 reviews

hazel_oat's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Drug abuse, Antisemitism, Drug use, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, and Excrement

samcanuel's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

The characters and plot of this book are quite messy, but it was beautifully written and very honest. The story had so many layers, between the main characters’ struggles with addiction, her identity, her family, and her love life. Each layer and the ways that they intertwined were treated with great care.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Drug use, Alcohol, Cursing, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

Moderate: Blood, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Death, Hate crime, Infidelity, Abandonment, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Cancer, Vomit, War, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicide

skylarak's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.0

Not your typical story about Jewish ancestral trauma! A good reminder that it’s born fair or helpful to paint it all with one brush. Came for the Moldovan Jewish representation, stayed for the squirrel candies, sour cherry varenkiki, mamaliga, and iguana, and Suboxone rep! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Drug use, Addiction, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual assault, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

kelseychild's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Murder, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Homophobia, Drug use, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Lesbophobia, and Hate crime

leogl's review

medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Minor: Vomit, Violence, Hate crime, Child abuse, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Lesbophobia, Rape, Death, Antisemitism, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Genocide, Eating disorder, Drug use, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Abortion, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, and Pedophilia

slucchesi06's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Miscarriage, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Grief, Drug abuse, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Rape, Hate crime, and Medical content

toastgrl's review against another edition

This book is too sleazy for me, as I get older I don’t have an interest in this kind of stuff anymore. It was just wayyy too much. The plot is also def misleading, it seemed more like a thriller but the book really has nothing to do with her missing sister besides the fact that the MC grows from it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Drug abuse, and Classism

nichole_of_numenor's review

dark reflective tense 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

4.25

More to come later but my initial thoughts after just finishing moments ago:

I was engrossed by this story of addiction, sobriety, and healing. In each of those things, the author layered more. Addiction to the obvious (drugs) and also to people. Addiction to those toxic and those healing. Sobriety from all of that. Healing on a personal level from childhood and adult traumas while at that same time healing from cultural and societal traumas. Or at least trying to and finding a way to navigate through them to a kind of broken peace.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Mental illness, Drug abuse, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual content