Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

The Toll by Neal Shusterman

10 reviews

hales_1243's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Grief, Homophobia, Blood, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Transphobia, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Child death, Kidnapping, Body horror, Death, Physical abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Cancer, Abandonment, Gun violence, and Vomit

Mention of plane crashes.

chiromiki's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Mass/school shootings, Genocide, Confinement, and Terminal illness

Minor: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

paracosim's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Transphobia

thanmayi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful slow-paced

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

3.0

 SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT I READ 3 BOOKS FOR THAT TO BE THE ENDING!? I am so fucking disappointed with this book, what the hell actually happened!? This felt like an obnoxiously long pile of words that basically failed to deliver and was so annoying to get through.

I liked the first half of the book, with Greyson being the Toll and Jerrico was a cool addition to the book. The thing that bothered me was the fact that Anastasia and Rowan while being the main characters basically had roles so little that they had little to no importance in the book.

I feel betrayed by the way it ended, I would have enjoyed it if Anastasia took Goddard town and became high blade herself instead she blasts off into space and basically leaves the world in Goddard's hands. For someone who is shown to be an ethical and smart character, she does the exact opposite of what she was set out to do.

I do not regret reading the series but this was probably the worst way to end the damn thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Transphobia

miciahsreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Death and Murder

Moderate: Transphobia

anaguana's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Suicide, and Genocide

Moderate: Torture and Transphobia

yabibliovert's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia

emma_rjl444's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

Minor: Transphobia and Suicidal thoughts

luluslittlelibrary's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Violence

Moderate: Transphobia

emordnilap's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

i LOVED the first two books and had high expectations for this book that were quickly squashed. it jumped around in the timeline a lot, there wasnt much character development, just these characters we already kinda knew going through the motions to move the plotline ahead. i did find the connections from throughout the triology really nice, however some of the finishing pieces of the book were incredibly frustrating and it changed the whole theme of the triology. i also found jeri’s  character and reaction to their identity poorly done, you would have thought in this thunderhead world there wouldn’t be transphobia however most of the interactions with people of power meeting jeri were negative. if you’re considering reading this triology, the third book makes it not worth it at all. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia

genderfluid character called strange and disgusting by characters in power.