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gabybeckley's review against another edition
mysterious
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
1.0
I enjoyed the writing in parts, though I felt it was slow to start, and enjoyed some plot points. It would have been a decent read if not for the handling of (spoiler and potential TW coming up) trans issues. I'm not expecting everyone to be an expert, but in this book main characters we are meant to smypathise with were at best misguided and misgendering a character, and at worst let someone off for murdering a trans character. There was really no sentiment expressed that it's truly vile to murder someone for being trans, yes even if you're surprised by that fact or you had wanted to be with them before you found out. I'm not expected every book to preach for the sake of trans right, but often in this kind of book you do get a judgement from the point of view of main characters, and instead the message here was more 'totally understandable, no need for justice or punishment here'. Main characters also outed trans character after their death. And there was no education against the constant misgendering. 1 star bc it would have been good/okay without that whole plot mess.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Murder, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Death, and Transphobia
Minor: Ableism
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