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Nothing Ever Happens Here by Sarah Hagger-Holt

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hillsax's review

2.0

I appreciate that the publishing world is starting to be interested in books featuring trans parents, but this isn't the best way to do it. A lot of the transphobic language and incorrect terminology wasn't unpacked and corrected for readers. I'm not sure a kid of a trans parent OR the trans parent themself would appreciate or recognize themselves in this story. It feels like it was written more for cis children of cis parents to sympathize with an experience that isn't even accurately portrayed.

lizziebernard's review

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2.0

2.5 stars - i think the message was good of course however i think this book was written for younger people so wasn’t very complex but still a good story

becs_l's review against another edition

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5.0

4.5 Stars

I wish there was a little bit more time spent exploring the relationship between Izzy and her dad especially in the second half, but other than that it was great.

abookishgirl's review

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4.0

Young people these days are so lucky that books like this exist. I didn’t “need” them, per se, since I always identified as cis and straight, and obviously every book I read as a child or teen was filled with people like me. But I still wish we’d had stories like this, about LGBT families, just to normalise it. And especially for my contemporaries who felt different and excluded, to see themselves represented. And for the bullies and ignorant people to learn from.