Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Gender Queer: A Memoir Deluxe Edition by Maia Kobabe

232 reviews

beepbeep101's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

lemonlord_of_the_south's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

Very well structured and pleasan to read. I really liked how the characters were drawn, especially the author growing up. 

It was nice to see someone with a similar experience to you be shown in a very human way and still have informative parts withoutit feeling like a textbook or a text analysing the experience.
It made me reflect on my own expression and experience and I really appreciate that kind of read
I would highly recommend this book to honestly most people. It's very versatile 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

bellebookstitch666's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Medical trauma and Deadnaming

littleb333's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

I really enjoyed reading this book, as a nonbinary person myself, and seeing the difference in how Maia was brought up and discovered eir identity!
I found myself relating to certain things and empathizing, even leaning new things like eir pronouns. I never had a community like em and it makes me happy reading that at least others can see the importance and also gain some confidence in knowing that others go through the same things and that they're not alone.
I really appreciated this book :)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Medical content, Vomit, and Blood

traa's review

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Body shaming, Blood, Sexual content, and Vomit

Minor: Homophobia, Drug use, Lesbophobia, Outing, Pregnancy, and Transphobia

sofiematthe's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Dysphoria, and Medical trauma

missrosymaplemoth's review against another edition

4.5

“Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.” p. 191

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Sexual content, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Medical trauma

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is an autobiographical comic about Maia Kobabe’s gender identity. I understand why it has been such a challenged book because some of the scenes are very graphic, but I think it has an important purpose and message. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Excrement, Vomit, Sexual content, Medical content, Body horror, and Blood

Minor: Bullying

maverique's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

I absolutely LOVED this book! Why did I relate so much to Maia's experiences??? Not to even mention how clearly and succinctly e was able to put eir thoughts and feelings (which also happen to be the same thoughts and feelings I've been having) into words. It's so so sooooo relatable. The storytelling, the art style, EVERYTHING. I was on the verge of tears at certain points throughout the story and I would've definitely cried if I wasn't in public surrounded by people 😂 Either way, I really loved this book and I plan to reread it at some point so I can take notes of all the books, media and concepts that e mentioned. Would recommend to just about anyone who's interested tbh lmao

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria and Blood

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Homophobia, Vomit, and Terminal illness

Misgendering was accidental. And all the times blood was brought up, it was menstrual blood.

the_vegan_bookworm's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

I felt so seen as I read this. A lot of the things the author described resonated with me so strongly when it comes to gender. I also felt e told a really compelling story around eir asexuality and relationship to romance throughout eir life. The art style was beautiful, and I found myself drawn into discovering more about eir life through eir storytelling. 

The ending is really open ended in a kind of unsatisfying way, which is my only real flag of note.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Minor: Blood