Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn

26 reviews

flightywren's review against another edition

4.25

dark reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I loved the premise and execution of this story. The writing was good. There were a few spots where I had to suspend my disbelief, but overall I really enjoyed this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Racism, Classism

scarylavender's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-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

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excellent on all levels, I've recommended it to everyone I can

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse

Moderate: Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Death, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, War, Classism

rachaelwho's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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So yeah, it's wish fulfillment/a morality play, but I still really enjoyed this one. Works for me.

Tw for

forced pregnancy

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Classism

Minor: Vomit

kalagrace's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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: Complicated

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A fast read, the pace was really propulsive. But, with that, some nuance that I would have enjoyed was missing. Really looking forward to the sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Drug abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Death of parent

that_robin's review against another edition

4.0

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really struggled with the narration in the book, but the stories of the individual characters and their choices were compelling for me. Lots of parallels to our current world; good food for thought. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Colonisation

memay9's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous inspiring mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Rape, Transphobia

kers_tin's review against another edition

3.0

dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Drug use, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting

schausjk's review against another edition

3.5

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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I enjoyed the book in general, and many of the characters were interesting. A fun thought experiment for exploring gender, hierarchy, and control. Ultimately though it feels like there are gaps in the worldbuilding

like only a single person dying Inside in 22 years

, and the fallout of the ending meant that things did feel somewhat rushed and unrealistic

for example, the rest of the staff just going along with Olympia being leader after having just been shown to be hostile to her and her ideas.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy

Minor: Rape, Violence, War

coffeebean216's review against another edition

0.5

dark reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing, Blood, Vomit, Classism

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Cancer, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Medical content, Abandonment

sweetrosegirl76's review against another edition

4.0

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I liked this but it wasn't what I expected. I liked it because it definitely felt realistic in terms of what could happen. It's not outside of the realm of possibility that we transition to a world that looks like this.

It's different than I expected because I thought that this was going to be more of a dystopian and that the three of them would band together to take down this rich bitch CEO. The world building regarding The Inside was interesting imo, but the space ships weren't really elaborated on.

It wasn't a bad book but there's no plot? It's a lot of just narration and accounts of what's happening, which again not bad, but not that great either. It was easy to follow along to but I kept waiting for an overarching plot. I think it'd be a great limited series or movie I feel like it's everything Barbie movie was supposed to be regarding toxic femininity and reversal of sexism. It really shows human nature to perpetuate cycles and uphold systems of power and oppression. I think it'd be a great book for a book club or book discussion there's a lot to unpack here which I appreciated.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Vomit, Colonisation