Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

210 reviews

violetends's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Transphobia, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

charlottemmeline's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective 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

5.0

This book was simultaneously one of the most beautiful, stressful and at times horrifying things I've ever read. Obsessed and am in a state of shock having finished it. Everyone should read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Grief, Homophobia, Suicide, Rape, Racism, Physical abuse, Abortion, Transphobia, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Outing, Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Mental illness

redrosemoth's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

This book is complex with interesting and imperfect characters. My only critique is the plot overall didn’t go very far and I wish it had. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Abortion, Dysphoria, Sexual content, Deadnaming, Death, Homophobia, Infertility, Outing, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

booksjessreads's review against another edition

medium-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? Yes

5.0

When I read this book, I definitely became utterly obsessed, to the point where I sticky-tabbed it, which is a rarity. I think there are some things in this book that are incredibly symbolic and have such great synthesis for the development of a complex, tangled and ultimately amazing plotline.

I think perhaps my favourite thing, is that it is packed full of complex characters and themes of motherhood, queerness, gender identity and race. It is thought-provoking, messy and heavy. I found Peters has fully fleshed out these characters and really gets into the psyche of them. I have not read a book that delves so deep into that psyche for a long time, and it really made me feel like I was the one making the decisions, and experiencing the emotions of the characters alongside them. The emotional depth of these characters is astonishing.

This book is also full of unreliable characters, which are like us. They are human. They are navigating their individual identities, out there trying to live life to their own potential, whilst also making it messy and complicated. I think Peters also makes a great point that not every trans person lives their life in the way the trans characters in the books do, and she really emphasises that everyone is different. There is the banality of every day life juxtaposed with a very unique, yet realistic, story-line and I really liked this also. 

This book answered a lot of questions you might subconsciously, or even consciously, have about the trans community, and even answers ones you never even knew could exist. It is unapologetically queer and completely wonderful and I would highly recommend this to anyone!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Transphobia, Miscarriage, Bullying, and Outing

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abortion, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Emotional abuse

nohousekey's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Hate crime, Deadnaming, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Pregnancy, Misogyny, and Miscarriage

jessthanthree's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Outing, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Abortion, Racism, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Grief, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Deadnaming, Mental illness, and Car accident

rachaelmaris's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

Incredible. It was such a satisfying and captivating read, I loved it. The writing was sharp and funny, the scenes were raunchy, poignant, evocative (and not just because it takes place in New York and I am always a little bit homesick). The characters! It feels trite to say they were multi-dimensional blah blah but these characters really felt like they were fully breathing individuals. Reading about them felt like I was reading their actual literal blog or twitter feed or whatever, as if they might post later this week and I'd be excited to see what they are up to next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Outing, Transphobia, Sexual content, Violence, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Pregnancy

Minor: Blood

catherinemcfall's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad 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

4.0

Gave me a lot to think about...it presents messy people who are flawed and not necessarily likeable but we're open to all their hurt and vulnerablity and shame which makes them so human and therefore loveable? Found some of it made me uncomfortable in a challenging good way, I think. Interesting insight into trans women's culture and taboo sex acts that don't get talked about in non fiction books about the trans community. I think I'll be thinking about this book for a while, trying to understand it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Transphobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Deadnaming, Abortion, Emotional abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, and Physical abuse

Minor: Mental illness and Suicide

indiatorrez's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

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

3.75

overall, this book is a necessary piece in the larger literary world. it gives a voice to an underrepresented community and is a gift to be given an invitation into this world. as a multi-racial non-binary queer i definitely experienced a myriad of reactions and emotions to characters and happenings.

it definitely took me awhile to really settle into the story and it wasn't until the last 75ish pages that i realized how invested i was.

beautiful and heartbreaking, provocative and well-written.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide, Transphobia, Self harm, Violence, and Suicide attempt

kerrygetsliterary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Sexism, Alcohol, Cursing, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Xenophobia, Body shaming, Cultural appropriation, Infertility, Sexual content, Violence, Deadnaming, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Outing, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Transphobia