Reviews tagging 'Lesbophobia'

Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve

10 reviews

kotareadsbooks's review

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

When high school lesbian thespian Dean is cast as Romeo in the fall play, Dean is sure the director either made a mistake or knows something he couldn’t possibly about Dean. And that’s that Dean is pretty sure he’s a trans guy. But there’s no way - Dean is out as a lesbian, with a lesbian girlfriend, Zoe, who loves “her” just the way “she” is. As Dean gets into the character, though, he starts to confront his feelings about being a guy and all the stresses of senior year. College, first love, coming out, and gender dysphoria all seem to snowball because of Romeo and Juliet. Good job, Mr. H. 
If you want a lot of angst and emotion in a trans book, this is the one for you. Dean is Going Through It. Poor dude. But there’s a lot of eye opening experiences that he gets as a trans kid and it’s really great to see. I do think Zoe gets a bad rep in this - it’s over the course of a single semester, and not everyone can wrap their heads around so many changes that really did come out of the blue - but ultimately I think the book wraps up nicely and I think that’s great. Everything happens a bit fast for me personally, but that’s okay. Overall it’s a good coming of age and gender book. Very emotionally heavy. There’s also quite a bit of lesbo and trans phobia in it so be warned if that’s triggering for you. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Hate crime, and Lesbophobia

sabrinalefebvre's review against another edition

challenging emotional lighthearted reflective 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? No

4.0

Very little pop culture references, very good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia and Transphobia

Moderate: Deadnaming

thebookpaiges's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Transphobia, Dysphoria, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Gaslighting and Homophobia

Minor: Lesbophobia

bruhbruh's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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? No

4.0

Made me cry

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Deadnaming, Outing, Hate crime, and Child abuse

Minor: Suicide

matheo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Transphobia, Bullying, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Outing, Lesbophobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Drug use, Hate crime, Sexual content, Violence, Body shaming, Racism, and Suicide

dododenise's review against another edition

emotional

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

2.0

I didn’t like how some things were handled and most of the characters were just very meh. 
Seeing Dean find and discover himself was pretty neat. But I couldn’t care about anything else in the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Deadnaming, Outing, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Biphobia

Minor: Suicide

maple_dove's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

This book really made me think about my own situation with my parents and coming out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Bullying, Lesbophobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicide, and Deadnaming

Misgendering (graphic), Harassment (graphic)

jo_lzr's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad 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: Transphobia, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Violence, and Bullying

Minor: Suicide

klannie's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective fast-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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Minor: Lesbophobia

wind_dog's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative sad 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: Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, and Violence