Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

83 reviews

karolinaz's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Violence, Grief, Hate crime, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Self harm, Sexism, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Outing, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

lixard's review against another edition

challenging funny slow-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

i may finally understand those who rate a book highly even with conflicting feelings of it. there are parts of this book i think about basically every day which just speaks to how well peters is able to bring to light things that all women experience but never truly realize. the biggest one is the conversation, through reese's (and iris's) toxic and abusive relationships as a way of affirming their gender? i thought about that one for hours and had a long discussion with my roommate about it... and i don't think i'll ever stop thinking about it.
another is the conversation between reese & katrina about how race and gender and class intersect with motherhood, that women are not all given the same assumption of/decision for motherhood.
oh! and i loved the elephant metaphor, the wim hof method, the sex and the city problem, etc. just so much thought put into how each of the characters see the world. good on ya.

i have nothing else to add except that i wished we knew what happened to their little trio family :(

without further ado some quotes that i had to steal off goodreads because my hold expired before i wrote them down: 

 “She’s suggested, in the way that naive cis people do, with a hint of self-congratulation at their own broad-mindedness, that it seems like trans people are starting to be everywhere, that maybe gender doesn’t matter that much. In his reply, he can’t help but let loose an old defensiveness on this topic. “I think it’s the opposite,” he says too sharply. “The whole reason transsexuals transition is because gender matters so incredibly much.” 

 “Yes and no. Some days I still love you and some days I don’t.”
Reese waited, sensing there was more. So he let her have as much of the truth as he could bear. “But the days I don’t love you…I have to work hard to make those days happen. The days I do require nothing of me.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, Physical abuse, Self harm, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Homophobia, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abortion and Deadnaming

oliviareese's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexism, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Deadnaming, Grief, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Abortion, Body shaming, Hate crime, Outing, Violence, Dysphoria, Infertility, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Lesbophobia

carol_c26's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

5.0

my heart ached for Reese and Ames and Katrina. a painful and beautiful look at family and queerness and love and motherhood

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Deadnaming, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

gusanadelibros's review against another edition

informative reflective sad 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, and Sexual content

thanmayi's review against another edition

medium-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

3.75

 This book isn't written for the comfort of cis women and that's something that a lot of people in these reviews seem to be missing.

This book is so beautifully written and is unapologetically trans, it looks at the darkest parts of being a trans woman, transitioning and detransitioning. I don't think I will ever be able to do this book justice when I talk about it. What I will say is that this is an important book, one that everyone needs to read at least once in their life. 

I will emphasize going through the content warnings because this book has a lot of heavy content. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Outing

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Deadnaming, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Pregnancy

My only issue with this book however was the entire cheating plot

paulawind's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective 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

5.0

This book was a bitch to go through because the topics tackled there were so complicated and hard to swallow, but it is brilliant. What I love most about books is how they expose me to different perspectives, put me into the head of people completely different from me so in result I start looking at the world around me through their eyes. The problems I’ve never considered to even exist now mount to the size of existential dilemmas and life-or-death situations. 
This book goes through everything starting with gender identity, trans experience, through motherhood, femalehood, feminism, to class and race differences and how it all intersects. Definitely the best book I’ve read this year so far

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Racism and Suicide

solenekeleroux's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Violence, Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Abortion, Grief, Death, Dysphoria, Body shaming, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

kbweis's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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 and Suicidal thoughts

allwaysbecoming's review against another edition

challenging dark funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

I originally picked up this book because friends told me it was funny, but it's much more intense than I anticipated in all powerful ways. The novel focuses on queerness, parenting, and the complexity of relationships. I loved the way Peters expands the meaning of family outside of the heteronormative structures and the way it allows for the true depth of the lives of trans women. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts