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catch__up's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Death, Transphobia, Sexual content, Confinement, Car accident, Grief, and Outing
Minor: Medical content, Violence, Bullying, Alcohol, Infertility, Physical abuse, Deadnaming, and Infidelity
dearvillains's review
3.25
Graphic: Medical content, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Dysphoria, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, and Transphobia
Moderate: Deadnaming, Infidelity, Ableism, Misogyny, and Suicidal thoughts
thecolouryes's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Outing, Confinement, Mental illness, Blood, Dysphoria, and Transphobia
Minor: Sexism, Grief, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Body shaming, Car accident, Deadnaming, Death, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship
awildeasriel's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Moderate: Dysphoria, Death, Transphobia, Violence, Hate crime, and Deadnaming
Minor: Infertility, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Car accident
gabefish's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Violence, Chronic illness, Outing, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror
Minor: Deadnaming and Transphobia
amy_reading_23's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.75
It reads more like experimental literary fiction than fantasy - the vampirism is used as a metaphor for chronic illness, living in a trans body, and being othered. If you are questioning your gender or identity then there are definitley bits of this books that can feel quite affirming. Overall it is quite a challenging book though, I wouldn't read it just for fun, but there were elements I liked.
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Chronic illness, Transphobia, Confinement, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Blood, Death, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Car accident, Grief, and Mental illness
pobi's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Blood, Transphobia, Sexual content, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Outing, Hate crime, and Death
Minor: Infidelity, Dysphoria, and Addiction
blue_bird31's review
- 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
3.0
I loved the discussion of fanfic and shipping culture. In conversations between queer characters there were queer patterns/styles of speech that I really appreciated. There was also discussion about the remnants of a body in objects after death.
This was a good book, but I was not in the right frame of mind at the time. I was dragging myself through reading this book as it was ruminating on someone who was having a difficult time in life and I should have been reading something more hopeful.
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Transphobia
Minor: Medical content
necroplasm's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Grief, and Outing
Moderate: Blood, Car accident, Infidelity, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Transphobia
Minor: Pregnancy and Deadnaming
eegekay's review
- 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
Graphic: Chronic illness, Dysphoria, Transphobia, Car accident, Death, Grief, Medical content, Sexual content, and Blood