Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

97 reviews

promisesatsundown's review

dark emotional tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

It’s like The Last of Us meets 28 Days Later but if 28 Days Later only effected cis men and then all the remaining cis women completely lost their minds and became rabid J.K. Rowling TERFS but were really bad at executing their plans for post-apocalyptic world domination and wind up getting themselves killed. Overall a wonderful, gory queer horror book with great social commentary on the hardships of being a trans woman. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

loumurrey's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, and Medical trauma

corsetedfeminist's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The best word I can think of to describe this book is primal. 
It details the aftermath of an apocalypse that targets testosterone, focusing on the struggle of trans women to survive in a world even more cruel to them.
This book comes with actually all of the trigger warnings, but hidden beneath the violence and gore is a surprisingly powerful discussion of feminism, trans love, found family, and the need for marginalized groups to stay together instead of going to war amongst ourselves. 
Everyone in this book is at best morally grey, and the romantic relationships are dysfunctional at best, but the treasure of this book is the queer community that gathers despite the conflicts and horrible decisions. Despite this, the main characters are incredibly multifaceted and lovable, even when they make the worst decisions and have to face the consequences thereof. The entire book is a struggle between protecting yourself and keeping each other safe in a heartbreaking way.  
This book is horror at its best- violent, bloody, profound

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Outing, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

statefossil's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

3.75

All of the good action happened within like the very last bit of the book. I anticipated this book having more hunting of men and less sex. There were obviously bits I liked (SPOILER:

Sophie's death, Robbie's intro, Indy's history -the little that we get of it

). 

Throughout the book, I knew one thing was going to happen and then when it did happen, it made me sad despite me seeing it coming the entire time while reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Rape, Torture, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Dysphoria

Minor: Self harm

23abaigeal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Death, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Outing, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

tressym_wizard's review against another edition

This book isn't a trans themed apocalypse, it's a compendium of gross sex scenes with some badly written apocalypse sub plots. I got 50 pages in and had to give up at the 10th sex scene. This book was not advertised in the porn section, I picked it up cause it was a queer horror, but it's honestly very fedishey. They constantly harp about never being seen as a woman in the sex scenes and they are full of shame and self worth issues. There are multiple on page rape scenes with and without monsters and every time they go to camp for the night they immediately start fucking. This book was a stomachache and gave me the feeling like I had gotten food poisoning and was about to vomit. And as a final note the writing is tacky, I could have forgiven it if it leaned into the jokes, but it took itself so seriously when the side villan was terfs...
Do not read this book, it's gross fetishist rape scenes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

It's just gross rape scenes

kaleereads's review

dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Colonisation, Dysphoria, and War

chickendiddly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging sad 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

4.75

Every scene played out like a movie in my head, this was the most horrifyingly delicious story ever. I’ve been searching to find a book that had me like this did! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Blood, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Outing, and Dysphoria

jp_riemersma's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

jillaay_h's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic