Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

64 reviews

madipenn's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Death, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Murder, and Outing

Minor: War

sorayah11's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Physical abuse, Stalking, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Suicide attempt, Homophobia, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Transphobia, War, and Classism

voidature's review against another edition

emotional

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Mental illness, Murder, Outing, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Ableism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Vomit and Transphobia

srolocs's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The romantic tension in this book is so tight you could play it like a Harp
The world and character building are really amazing. I also listened to the book while reading it, the narrators were really amazing also and did a great job with portraying emotions that otherwise were not portrayed in the text. 
The slow burn romance caught me off guard. The first kiss happened about

4/5ths

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, Rape, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death and Murder

Minor: Transphobia

thisqueerreadstoomuch's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Sexual content, Rape, Sexual assault, and Murder

elliott_the_clementine's review

I am not in the headspace right now for this book. I may pick it up again later if that changes! Beautiful writing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Transphobia, Self harm, Body horror, and Homophobia

anna_hepworth's review

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

On the one hand, I read this through as fast as I could, and found the writing absolutely mesmerising.  On the other hand, I spent a lot of time thinking 'surely, some of the plot is going to start to resolve'. And that was both for the political plot and the romance plot. 

If you like long, complicated political plots gone through in detail in the foreground of the story, this is a great book. If your preference is to have less of the nitty gritty detail of the complex politics, then this is going to feel long (and at 500+ pages, it is long in and of itself). 

There is a traumatic happening in the early chapters of the story, and there is a lot of time spent on the recovery. The details of the traumatic happening are flagged in a content note in the pages leading up to the first chapter, so if you wish to go in unspoiled, then skipping the early pages is recommended. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Rape

Moderate: Animal death, Xenophobia, and Homophobia

Minor: Transphobia

kailanlovescats's review

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

Overall fun time. A cozy fantasy romance read for me, but some situations may be too high stakes for others. Nothing too extraordinary happens but the romance was cute and the characters were lovable. The "who is trying to kill the main characters?" plot came second and was a little drawn out. But again, cute overall. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Blood, Homophobia, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Transphobia

The main character is sexually assaulted by his ex, which results in some lingering trauma throughout the book.

he's forecefully kissed, forced to give a handjob, and forced to use his thighs

s_l's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.5

The book was nice, but sort of naive in the way Tithenai society and Cae are so perfect for Vel and Markel, which I know some people would want and need to read about, that in the end it was boring for me
But other than that it was good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Confinement, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Ableism, Animal death, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Murder, Transphobia, and Religious bigotry

jennp28's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

I absolutely loved this story. The mix of intrigue, politics, character and world building, and sweet romance is perfection. This is not usually my go-to genre but I picked it up on recommendation of a reading challenge and am so glad I did! The inclusion of gender and sexuality and their treatment in the various cultures was especially well done and women very well into the story so it didn’t seem preachy or forced. Lots of trigger warnings in this one though so make sure to check those. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal death, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, Blood, and Homophobia

Minor: Transphobia, Confinement, and Vomit