Reviews tagging 'Outing'

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

98 reviews

larkken's review

challenging dark emotional tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Violence, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Sexism, Outing, and Gore

Moderate: Fatphobia, Trafficking, Rape, Body shaming, Body horror, and Torture

Minor: Pregnancy

nixieba25f's review

challenging dark emotional 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: Body shaming, Cannibalism, Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Outing, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, War, Ableism, Blood, Confinement, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Bullying, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Cultural appropriation

bxtskr's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This is quite literally my favorite book of all time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, War, Transphobia, Outing, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Gore, Body horror, Animal death, Deadnaming, and Cannibalism

mistawenis's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Blood, Biphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, Gun violence, Drug use, Xenophobia, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Gore, Torture, Rape, Violence, Vomit, War, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Deadnaming, Cursing, Cannibalism, Body shaming, Alcohol, Addiction, Abortion, Abandonment, Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Murder, Fatphobia, Dysphoria, Classism, Alcoholism, and Ableism

laurenkimoto's review

adventurous dark funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

This book is unhinged, violent, vulgar, provocative, and wild in the best way possible. 
This dystopian/horror is the first one I have really enjoyed in a long time.
I will be thinking about this book until the apocalypse comes 

Very minor spoiler: JKR gets her comeuppance.    

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Biphobia, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Classism, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Violence, Transphobia, Trafficking, Grief, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Outing, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Drug use, Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Racism, and Self harm

booknerd85's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Outing, Pregnancy, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Drug use, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Slavery, War, Ableism, Classism, Confinement, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Infidelity, and Trafficking

mcornell's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

WOWIE. If you can stomach this book, I cannot recommend it enough. I regularly read thrillers, and I had to put this down multiple times because it was so gory. HOWEVER, the social commentary and discussion of queerness, aesthetics, and identity were phenomenal. It’s just shy of 5 ⭐️S only because we bounced so much from plot line to plot line that I had a hard time keeping track once we got to the climax. So good! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Dysphoria, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Sexual assault, Death, Sexual content, Vomit, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Deadnaming, Fatphobia, and Outing

lycheejelly's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Death, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Body horror, Cannibalism, Cursing, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Violence, War, Dysphoria, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

Minor: Abortion, Misogyny, Child abuse, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Excrement, Incest, and Miscarriage

kshertz's review

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

3.75

This is a hard book to review so take mine with all the salt grains. It’s horror and I don’t typically do that. It’s gory. It’s pithy. It’s snarky. It’s in your face. I love the one liners and I love the TERF tell offs. But the world created just makes me all sorts of sad and depressed. It was too much for me! But maybe that’s what makes it amazing? I think if you like really really dark horror that is very unique and different from anything you’ve read before and you support trans people, you will love this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Violence, Transphobia, Toxic friendship, Rape, Physical abuse, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Self harm, Murder, Medical content, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, Deadnaming, Body horror, Blood, Torture, Pregnancy, Outing, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Hate crime, Gore, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, and Body shaming

Minor: Antisemitism

agavemonster's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

What a read! Touched and disturbed me, and made me confront the ways in which I have failed to live up to my values about my trans siblings. I found the book somber and cruel but not heartless, the depiction of apocalypse unusually clear-sighted, and the "victory" at the end more heartbreaking than victorious. The gore and body horror, which are indeed graphic, could not be removed without damaging our empathy and embodiment with the characters. Other reviewers have called the book's tone depressing or bitter; I think that the end of the world was/is/will be painful, and people suffer and make each other suffer, even people who love each other, and to depict that other than truthfully is an injustice.

A few minor annoyances:

• Semi-frequent image and phrase repetition: things and people smell or look like milk, the men-beasts are always described with the same few adjectives, hair is "cornsilk." The only niggling distraction from otherwise fabulously fluid and visceral prose
• Teach's motivation seemed flimsy and one-dimensionally rage monster, especially when compared to deputy Ramona, who was deeply grotesque and complex in her anesthetization, denial, anger, and self-pitying lashing out. Teach's one brief POV scene at the end weakened rather than strengthened her character. Would have liked her point of view to be more developed and three-dimensional. People who hate another type of person enough to commit genocide usually have a mess of complex thoughts about that type of person, not just one-dimensional disgust
• Several times, the men busted in at the perfect moment and "saved the day" for the protags by distracting or attacking their intelligent enemies in a way that struck me as a little contrived

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Torture, Transphobia, War, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Outing, Police brutality, and Gore