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Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

43 reviews

laurelgrovearboretum's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Violence, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

apolloann's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

This was a hard book to read, but wow, was it great. With just enough humor sprinkled in to make the horror digestible, Manhunt left me feeling deeply unsettled. I'm newer to the horror genre, so this was a lot to handle, but the story and characters were so beautifully written that it made the discomfort worth it.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infertility, Self harm, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Excrement, Trafficking, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

f18's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

3.0

I figured this would be the best bet for a gender chromosome hormone apocalypse depiction that I could get behind, and it did address all the stuff that irks me about other versions (discusses how it affects trans people ofc, but also things like pcos). Unfortunately I didn't really find myself immersed in the writing but I'm not 100% sure why. I guess the style didn't click with me or maybe because it didn't focus as much on aspects of the genre I most connect to, like body horror. 

I constantly kept losing track of which POV the story was in at any time. I attributed this to the narrator not pausing long enough between scene breaks, but I see that has come up in reviews of the physical book as well. I think the character voices (not the narrator's but the author's ) blurred together. 

There's just something about the metaphor of

trans women surviving by eating cis men's testes

that is just so interesting but yeah... the book was okay, but I didn't love it like I was hoping for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Cannibalism, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Slavery, Suicide, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Incest, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Cultural appropriation

spoilers for Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier, tooth trauma , misandry, gendered slurs, execution, mention of student/teacher relationship

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Racism, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Outing, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death and Panic attacks/disorders

nwordsmith's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

This book was a wild ride. By the time I reached it on my TBR pile, I had completely forgotten the premise and was totally blindsided by the plot. That being said, this is a great gory post apocalyptic read. An insightful commentary on current issues facing the queer and especially trans community in the world today, but dialed up to 100 in a world where pleasantries and saving face don’t exist. TERFs run rampant and the rich do as they please with no hint of accountability. Like many other reviews said, it is very sexually explicit and full of graphic violence. The sexual content seems focused towards the beginning, so if you can get through the first third of the book, it tapers off as events progress. If that’s not your cup of tea, give this one a skip. 

I greatly enjoyed the gossip about what happened to celebrities in the apocalypse and the gratifying end to a certain public figure. There’s nothing like fantasy literary justice for a previously beloved author with a fatal flaw. 

My main problem was the structure, it felt hard to follow the various POV shifts with so many characters and conflicting interests. I wish it had focused on one or two characters in order to better follow their inner development. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Classism

tales_told_in_gold's review

adventurous challenging dark medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

Minor: Eating disorder, Racism, and Outing

hauntedantiqueshop's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

1.0

TERFs hate this book because they’re transphobic and weak. I (they/them) hate this book because it’s bad. We are NOT the same. 😤

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Cannibalism, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Racism and Antisemitism

lots f slurs dropped, right off the bat

noonanjohnc's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

lactoseintolerant's review

This book was extremely disappointing. Situating testosterone as a demonizing hormone felt like trying not to do transphobia so hard that you horse-shoe back around and end up doing transphobia again. I somehow thought another trans person would have found a way to plot that out with a little consideration for her trans brothers. Having the only trans-masc character get his period, and not including nor understanding how fucking awful of an experience that is, speaks volumes to how the author views trans men (I have never felt more like someone considered me Woman Lite). 

If that's not compelling enough for you, don't skip past her description of an Indigenous character's skin as "red"! That really says it all, in so far as revealing the alarming ignorance of this author, but as a cherry on top, she features a fat character whose entire thought patterns center around her weight. It probably would've been good to flesh those characters out more beyond bizarre, dehumanizing, and flattening stereotypes. But y'know. Trans solidarity I guess. To be fair, I read the whole thing, so, something kept me going.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Racism

raccoon_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Violence