Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

20 reviews

karol99's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Dysphoria, Infertility, Miscarriage, Outing, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Death, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Blood, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Child death

Minor: Transphobia

brnineworms's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.5

Messy bitches all round.
Exceptionally well-written, until the ending where it felt like the brakes were slammed; it faltered then just kind of stopped, and not in a satisfyingly unsatisfying way. Still, I liked it a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infidelity, Outing, Dysphoria, Sexism, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

Moderate: Abortion, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Blood, Chronic illness, Suicide, Violence, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Self harm, and Sexual assault

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Incest, Murder, Racism, Eating disorder, Trafficking, Car accident, Infertility, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Colonisation

bethvance's review against another edition

emotional funny sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Violence, Miscarriage, Abortion, Transphobia, and Suicide

Minor: Deadnaming

belle2008's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Outing, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

balfies's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-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

I devoured this in a day. It's not just as good as you've heard, it's better.

Brilliant, sensitive, funny, full of character, and able to divine the complex relationships between sex, sexuality, womanhood, trans identity, parenthood, and change. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Abortion, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Pregnancy, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Abortion, Deadnaming, and Blood

Minor: Eating disorder

fronkiekong's review against another edition

challenging funny reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Dysphoria, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Violence, Transphobia, Infidelity, Infertility, Abortion, Alcohol, Blood, Domestic abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Outing, and Physical abuse

Minor: Abandonment and Drug use

lexa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

Great book, hard to read at times, but well written. Perhaps occasionally a bit ramble-y, but lives up to the hype. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

Minor: Blood and Sexual content

demo's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Suicide, Deadnaming, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

Moderate: Miscarriage, Abortion, and Blood

Minor: Eating disorder

yavin_iv's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Infidelity

Moderate: Abortion, Drug use, Medical content, Blood, and Death

Minor: Addiction and Deadnaming

whatjaimereads's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Detransition, Baby follows the story of two and a half women, their joint foray into the world of queer parenting, and what it means to be yourself when that self is an interloper to society.
The discussions within this book around gender, fetishisation, and parenthood are handled fluidly, and sensitively, and are unique to any other queer fiction that I’ve read. Peters has written deeply realistic, multi-faceted characters that each offer their own insight into the struggles faced by marginalised communities. This novel is driven by its characters and discussions of their flaws, and it visibly benefits from the author’s Own Voice perspective as a queer woman. 
However, this insight comes with the weight of knowledge that the reflections in Detransition, Baby are true-to-life. There is a huge amount of graphic, sensitive content, and some of the storytelling can become over-indulgent within these areas. Our cast of characters are all suffering from deep trauma in their past/present, which makes for some really heavy reading. By about chapter 9 I was completely emotionally exhausted, so I urge you to proceed with caution. 
This is not the book that I was expecting from its synopsis, but it probes some really important topics, and for that reason it is undeniably an important read. 
*ARC gifted by Serpents Tail in exchange for an honest review*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia