Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

Trumpet by Jackie Kay

33 reviews

beades93's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Deadnaming

jouljet's review

challenging emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

cursed_reader's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Deadnaming, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Racism

ruddsreads's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

i am simply blown away and may never recover. rarely have i read anything so heartbreakingly tender as this. made me ache all over my body with it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Dysphoria

nightfell's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-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? Yes

Hard to read, but presents a realistic view of public opinions towards trans people in 1990s Britain.
Huge trigger warning for trans phobia.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Outing, Transphobia, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Sexual content

noahsingh's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Outing, Racism, Death of parent, Death, Grief, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Alcohol, Medical content, and Body shaming

Minor: Dementia, Lesbophobia, Colonisation, Dysphoria, and Homophobia

cwgrieves's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Transphobia, Death of parent, and Outing

rcsreads's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

It's clear that if they were real people several of the characters in this book would read the Daily Mail. Some sections contain a lot of transphobic language and while the underlying story of Joss' love and marriage is full of love and acceptance the background to it comes with a trigger warning. 

The books begins with the death of famous jazz trumpeter Joss Moody and the discovery by everyone but his wife that Joss has boobies wrapped up under his suit. The story is told from various perspectives, his wife Millie, his son Coleman, various friends and an extremely annoying and unpleasant journalist. 

I liked Kay's writing style but if I put the book down between chapters I could just leave it for days. There was no momentum or need to keep going. It was at points almost like a set of short stories on a theme rather than a cohesive novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Transphobia, and Death of parent

rachelandrews's review

challenging emotional reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming and Transphobia

francestea's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

Fascinating read and a truly original story. The audiobook is well narrated. My struggle was that the chapters jump between characters and it wasn’t a always clear whose voice it was- not sure if this was intentional or just a downside of the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Death of parent, and Transphobia