Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan

6 reviews

wandering_canuck's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

1.5

This book was a slog to get through. Though I did enjoy the beginning where the author recounts growing up in the Philippines, it quickly went downhill once she moved to the States. 

My issues with the book:
1. The narrator is simply unlikeable. Arrogant and pompous and self-centered, she holds herself in the highest regard (most beautiful, most intelligent, most desired.) 
2. Although I have a live and let live philosophy, Ithe narrator's story just doesn't ring true. I came away with the sense that she felt she could live as either a man or a woman, but didn't really delve too deeply into why she opted for gender reassignment surgery. 
3. The last half of the book lacked detail. The author appeared fixated on her appearance, but I didn't feel an emotional connection that what must have been a very emotional time of self discovery. 
4. As someone who is neither Asian nor trans, I am hesitant to judge too harshly, but the author comes off as being both anti-Asian and anti-trans. I'm sure her transformation was complicated, I was not convinced that anything she did was anything more than attention seeking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, Infidelity, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, and Transphobia

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Classism, Abandonment, Ableism, and Transphobia

Minor: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Suicide, Dysphoria, Alcoholism, Death, and Sexual harassment

hilaryreadsbooks's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Ableism, and Body shaming

el13's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

1.5

I'm glad Meredith shared her story: a contemplation on what it means to be an outlier in many ways and a journey to acceptance of the self. I just really cannot do books with graphic sexual content, but I see how it was integral to the author's processing of her feelings and identity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Infidelity, and Sexual content

ghostreadin's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, and Infidelity

julied's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, and Suicide