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Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

85 reviews

sydneynorman'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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Classism, Death, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Gore, Hate crime, Murder, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Body horror, Sexism, War, Outing, Pandemic/Epidemic, Transphobia, Violence, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Medical content, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Confinement, Cursing, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Body shaming, Bullying, Gun violence, Infertility, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicide, and Torture

Moderate: Infidelity, Death of parent, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Addiction, and Self harm

Minor: Deadnaming

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

anncarve's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

1.75

I understand the deep dark place this book came from, but to not even end it on a hopeful note felt like a betrayal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Ableism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Dysphoria, Sexual content, Deadnaming, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Transphobia, Blood, Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, and Violence

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

sovner736's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Death, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit, Torture, Outing, Suicide, and Blood

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

bdlin101's review

I could tell almost immediately that this book and I weren’t going to get along, but a friend suggested it, so I pushed passed chapter two.

The MC, Fran, is insufferable, acting like a damn teenager in the face of her enemy, treating her “best friend” like shit, and allowing herself to think far, far too highly of herself. The fact that the author thought it was a good idea to compare real life transphobia with cis women (and trans men) fearing all people with testosterone in a world where testosterone having people have a disease that makes them brutally rape and rip apart and kill those with vaginas. Those are not the same kinds of fears. So I’m not sure this book hits the way she wants it to. 

The rest of the book is just trauma porn for queer folks and women alike. Graphic depictions of rape and killings. Forcing trans women to dress and fuck like straight men. Trans men having to go off testosterone in order to survive and not get the disease. And TERFs. 

Finally, the writing style. Terrible. It read like fanfic they wrote as a huge Harry Potter fan after finding out JK Rowling is transphobic, and she wanted to find a creative way to kill her off. It’s pretty bold, and tasteless, to name a real person and burn them alive in your book, but my dude, Gretchen, did.

TL;DR: Unless you enjoy poorly written, traumatic, and downright problematic zombie with plenty of sexual assault thrown in just cuz, I suggest skipping Manhunt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Toxic friendship

kys_chai_and_books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Body horror, Cannibalism, Deadnaming, Fatphobia, Medical content, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Blood, Violence, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Gun violence, Racism, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Death, Murder, Rape, Misogyny, Dysphoria, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Pregnancy

acbrummitt's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Transphobia, Body shaming, Confinement, Gun violence, Homophobia, Murder, Vomit, Cannibalism, Gore, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Trafficking, Blood, Rape, Body horror, Deadnaming, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Kidnapping, Outing, Violence, War, Death, and Fatphobia

nicolesbookreviews's review

challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, Hate crime, Medical content, Outing, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, and War