Reviews - Detransition, Baby

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Detransition, Baby

Torrey Peters

4.03 AVERAGE

olitro's review against another edition

4.75

challenging emotional funny 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: Yes

Wow, what a book. Deserves all the high praise it’s gotten. It opened up a world to me that I had little access to before and pushed me to take on a lot of different perspectives. Also, finally a book about NYC that actually gets it right. Many of the descriptions of people, places, things were so unique and vivid. One small drawback was I felt like feelings were explained a little too logically if that makes sense. Overall really enjoyed this. Reese is very funny and culturally relevant!

mmaryebrownn's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional reflective tense

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

interesting and insightful - deeply appreciated how distinct and real each character felt. more reflective where i tend to enjoy a bit more movement, but also that was the point

Content Warnings

emath98's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I’m so goddamn tired of depressing queer books.

EDIT, 3 weeks later:
That being said, I do think it was well written, I could barely put it down once I started. I alternated between finding the characters highly relatable and infuriating/wanting to reach into the book and shake them. Definitely great morally grey character rep. But everyone was a little TOO wrapped up in their own shit to be redeemable imo.

I would love to read a book about unconventional queer family that didn’t end depressingly.

Content Warnings

arieslofi's review against another edition

dnf'd @ 7%
the writing lacks too much for me to be able to keep reading this book. if it was simply the narration, i could have moved on easily, but the way dialogue is written made me roll my eyes repeatedly. i utterly despise dialogue that does not feel real. it's the thing that matters most to me when writing and when reading. if your characters do not feel like real people through dialogue, they will not feel like real people through narration, no matter how many times you show, or tell, me how flawed and three-dimensional they are. they will always be ink on paper to me.

emilypolcyn's review against another edition

5.0

I absolutely love a story that can mail multiple character voices / perspectives and this one DELIVERED. Each character had such different opinions about so many things and viewed the world in fundamentally different ways and I feel the author did an excellent job of speaking in each of their voices and justifying their points of view. This book fundamentally understood queerness and how it affects very different people and ack I loved it