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Woodworking

Emily St. James

4.5 AVERAGE

hopeful informative reflective 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: No
hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
emotional funny hopeful inspiring
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

Starts funny and light and adds more and more depth, growth, love, support, connection, and hopes for their individual (and collective) brighter futures. This was just a beautiful (and so very important, duh) story through and through.
I am so glad a random bookstagram reel talking about this book caught my attention.
emotional hopeful inspiring sad slow-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
emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

I need to sit on this one to formulate a proper review but THIS BOOK IS REALLY FUCKING GOOD!! Trans solidarity!! Rowdy trans teen!! Extremely fucking complicated messy relationships full of love and care!! So much angst! But also TRAUMA✨ 
The way this book handles the dissociative experience of existing and being perceived in a body that is not Your Body is striking, and the writing itself is great on the whole — we’re doing Art here, folks.

There were several quotes I loved and immediately forgot, but this one I saved (it gives zero spoilers except  Vibes I guess lol)
“That’s all we are, maybe. People who pick each other out in a crowd, and realist that the face of someone you’ve just met can feel like home.”

(I listened to the audio tho so forgive my punctuation)
hopeful inspiring reflective 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
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emmaprins's review

5.0
challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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

in tears. didn’t expect this book to be so good. can’t wait to annoyingly recommend this to everyone
emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Can I rate this more than 5 stars? Best book I've read this year! Do yourself a favor and read this ASAP.
emotional hopeful inspiring 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
hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes