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Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure: A Graphic Novel by Lewis Hancox

9 reviews

daniellekat's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative fast-paced

3.75

Good, but I wish there was a bit more on life post-transition. I appreciate this work and enjoyed that the story was mostly light despite being such a challenging time for the author. The artwork was interesting and helped to lighten the mood, but I found the text a little hard to comprehend at times (although I'm from Canada and am probably just not familiar with the slang used).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, and Body shaming

Moderate: Fatphobia, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Minor: Sexual content

bookswithlauren's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Medical content, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

meganpbell's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This funny, honest, self-compassionate, perfectly cringy, loving, empowering graphic memoir of growing up trans in suburban England in the 90s and early 00s is just such a gift. I loved how Lewis, as an all-grown-up transman, self-inserts, visits, accepts, and tries to help his younger self, Lois, and all the humor and honesty with which he depicts his teen years and his transition. So grateful this book exists!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria and Eating disorder

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Homophobia, Vomit, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Medical content, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Body shaming

Minor: Blood

ajnagle's review

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

Fantastic memoir about the trans experience, really cool to see a memoir done as a comic. Quite hopeful, light tone on serious topics. Really good read

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Medical content, Self harm, Body shaming, Bullying, and Alcohol

rachelizx's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Dysphoria

Moderate: Body shaming and Deadnaming

Minor: Violence

amabel_xo's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cursing, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Transphobia, Alcohol, and Outing

alisonannk's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Outing, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Body horror, and Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical content, Alcohol, Deadnaming, Fatphobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, and Transphobia

carareadsalot's review

hopeful medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Dysphoria, Vomit, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Alcoholism

kindredbooks's review against another edition

4.0

I received a copy of Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure by Lewis Hancox from Scholastic Canada in exchange for an honest review.

In this graphic novel memoir, Lewis Hancox brings us back to his childhood in his hometown, St. Helens, or St. Hell. This is such an interesting, hilarious, and honest memoir in which present-day Lewis has conversations with his younger self as he is growing up. As a young child, Lois (as he was identified back then) was already having so questions about identity, gender, and discovering who he is. It's a coming-of-age story about family, friendship, queer identity, and finding spaces and people that you can belong to. I think that this is such an important read for all young people - as it is a celebration of identity, whether one is LGBTQ+ or not. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, and Bullying