Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

45 reviews

books_24's review against another edition

Absolute garbage 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Drug abuse

arrr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Wow this book is a trip! If you're mad at toxic cis men and terfs, then this book is super cathartic. If you're trans and fragile, then be warned that there is a lot of trauma here. Like. So. Much. Trauma. Queer zombie apocalypse tho, very early 2000s vibes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Transphobia, Slavery, Medical content, Gore, Death, Vomit, Violence, Self harm, Excrement, Death of parent, Classism, Blood, Rape, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Deadnaming, Chronic illness, Child death, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Confinement, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Dysphoria, Bullying, Cannibalism, Sexual content, Child abuse, Animal death, Sexual harassment, Cancer, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Body horror, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Eating disorder, Drug use, Torture, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia

leadpal's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Dysphoria, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Rape

Moderate: Racism, Torture, Pregnancy, and Vomit

Minor: Drug use and Self harm

audrilou's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-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

I adore this book. The ending had me heaving big heavy sobs for minutes. Its a dark dark read, especially if you are trans. Because of that closeness, I felt so much more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, War, Sexual violence, Rape, Death, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Deadnaming, Body shaming, Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexism, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Infertility, Homophobia, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Genocide, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Drug use, Cursing, Body horror, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Ableism, and Abortion

danimacuk's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, Dysphoria, Cursing, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Body horror, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Torture, Transphobia, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Chronic illness, Classism, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Infertility, Medical content, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Suicide, Slavery, Chronic illness, Drug use, Infertility, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Confinement, and Lesbophobia

sapphicshark's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Fatphobia, Torture, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Rape, Self harm, Death, Drug use, Dysphoria, Murder, Gore, Hate crime, Medical content, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Grief, Outing, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Blood, Body horror, Excrement, and Sexual assault

bittennailbooks's review against another edition

 DNF'd at 149 pages - Reading for the #TransRightsReadathon

A bleak, egregious, and dismal imaginging of a post-apocalyptic future where men's final form is foaming-at-the-mouth mutants, XX TERF's become militaristic hunters, and another reality where trans people are hunted to near extinction.

That being said: This is not a bad book by any stretch of the word. In fact, I think its almost too good that this hits way too close to home. Unfortunately, I did not have the stomach to finish it but I hope you do! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Gore, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Drug use, Death, Grief, Rape, Blood, Body shaming, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Alcohol, Gun violence, and Genocide

vulgarboy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

1.25

In a weird turn of events, this is now the worst book that I have ever read. I knew I was getting into something atypical, something radical, but this was a 300 page dumpster fire. This wasn't really horror, either. Sure there was some gore, but most of the parts meant to be tense or scary felt uninteresting or poorly executed. Aside from that, this felt like Misandry: The Book while also perpetuating the fetishization of non-cis folks. The one trans masc lead was only there for sex and basically nothing else. The personality the two trans femme characters have is completely absen after the first maybe 100-150 pages, one of which is reduced to little more than someone trying to get laid. Even the sex scenes weren't that great, often falling into again a weird fetishization of non-cis bodies or just straight up being bad. Don't even get me started on the one Indian character being called "Indi." I wish I was joking. The most compelling character was a TERF, in a book that is supposed to be so anti-TERF to the point it became "controversial" for killing JKR in the most boring way possible. This was a genuine atrocity masquerading as phenomenal story-telling with an interesting premise. It fell short in so many ways. Given the fact that it's written by a horny, terminally online author who claims there needs to be more sexual assault in the media (????), I'm MORE disgusted thanI originally thought possible. The only reason I gave this any stars at all was for the single compelling character who was- again- a TERF. Absolute garbage and waste of my time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Rape, Drug use, Fatphobia, Antisemitism, Transphobia, Body horror, Ableism, and Gore

kaschaller's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Grief, Body horror, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Medical content, Deadnaming, Gun violence, Ableism, Slavery, Sexual content, Rape, Murder, Vomit, Torture, Cursing, Drug use, Death, Blood, Transphobia, Outing, Gore, War, and Violence

wildeflower's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad medium-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? No

4.25

I thought this book was really well done and very interesting. It was extremely gory, and there was one part in the end that grossed me out a lot, but overall I thought it was very impactful and seemed to me (a cis woman) to have good trans representation. It also provided a lot of social commentary on not only lgbtq rights but also classism, racism, sexism, and nationalism. Overall was definitely worth the read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Outing, Blood, Body horror, Misogyny, Excrement, Gore, Homophobia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Murder, Vomit, Sexism, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Drug use, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Outing, Cancer, Child death, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Deadnaming, and Classism

This is a book about a group of transwomen trying to survive an apocalypse where they're being hunted by literal TERFS, and so there is so much trans violence, slurs, hate crimes, etc. towards trans women / trans femmes.