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the_true_monroe's review

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dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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caw21's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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mels_reading_log's review

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book was so good, but in that way that breaks your heart. I hate that Elliot had to deal with everything he has and didn’t always have people around him to make him feel safe. I’m so happy that he had the courage to write this book and that it has become so popular. It’s so important and empowering to hear queer and trans voices. This is just one trans person’s story, but hearing the joy and relief in his voice when he talked of being out and surgery gives me hope for others, that they feel safe enough to be themselves as well.

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stevia333k's review

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dark tense slow-paced

4.25

The last 3rd was good, and i say this because the first 2 thirds were violent as hell. I had to learn that he was in a lot of action movies basically in order to handle it & i also could only listen 10 minutes at a time at triple speed.

Anyways, after a while certain parts about being trans were like oh good my transfemme self isn't alone.

The relationships though & the shadow work kinda went over my head because I'm aromantic but the workplace accident (because of how wreckless the directors were to black & queer lives) helped connect me to the kind of stuff he meant, so I am thankful he included workplace incidents like that.

Also the memoir isn't told as chronologically, so basically if you're taking notes then I recommend trying to make a character list sort of glossary since the time dimension doesn't sort them, but some segments are like public letters.

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hellokira's review

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adventurous

4.5

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moliviabow's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

A heartwarming and personal journey!

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miekss's review against another edition

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medium-paced

2.0

I had a different anticipation for this book than the content actually described.

I really didn’t like his writing style as the event order of this book wasn’t linear which is fine but it wasn’t clear when we had gone back in time or fast forwarded to future.

I also thought that the contents of this memoir did not live up to the hype for me as majority of chapters just covered who they’d been in romantic/sexual relationships with and that they’d ended mostly because

someone was closeted / fear of being publicly out

which could’ve been covered in a third of the book to move onto other themes.

I was shocked at the quantity and severity of verbal threats he endured growing up as someone suspected of being gay and then out as gay. This was really sad and hard to read. He didn’t go much into how this affected him emotionally or what he did to move through some of these events which would definitely shake you up.

I also wanted more insight into their process for top-surgery and mentioning of being on T in more depth.

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