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Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

38 reviews

elenavarg's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

I wanted something more from this, but I’m a little unsure what.

The whole book felt like a collection of interesting themes and ideas, but none of those themes and ideas get fully explored, except for the romance, which is very insta-lovey, which is not really my thing.

The dialogue also feels kinda off to me. I can’t quite explain it, but Sol talks like an MCU character (derogatory) and it really took me out of the story!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Outing, Dysphoria, and Classism

mgpalpha's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-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

5.0

“Transgender vampire archivist” hit all the things I love to read about, I absolutely adored it



Also the

vampire bite sex

was hot

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Transphobia

anxieteaisme's review

dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This had a lot less vampire than I expected and a lot more trans, which I’m fine with. I liked the vampire concept in this book, their lives etc, I just wish it was more fleshed out. I also like the comparison between vampirism and transness; it’s a really interesting one. 
Overall it was pretty good, just not my favourite. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Grief

c_alexander's review against another edition

Found the writing style to be a little too repetitive, and the characters didn’t feel fully fleshed out. Got told details about the protagonist without ever experiencing them. The actual plot was also a bit vague sometimes in favour of the protagonists inner world - eg it wasn’t even clear at the start that it was the two character’s first time meeting which is an important detail

The description of women, physically, in general was a little uncomfortable. Some parts
parts also read like the author just found out about the word “dyke” and was excited to show it off, yet despite that there wasn’t really exploration into the experience or even existence of transmasc lesbians? Which seemed a bit antithetical

Also struggled with the reliance on fanfiction + ao3 as a plot device. It’s clear this was written by an archivist who has a deep passion for the craft, but the particular way fandom was used to explore this really fell flat. The TV show the protagonist is involved in the fandom of also had a LOT of excerpts and long descriptions of what happened in it - it felt very much like that was a seperate story the author also wanted to tell, but it didn’t run parallel to the story of Dead Collections, we just got random chunks of it 

It definitely read like the love interest was going to realise they’re genderqueer and the joking/hinting about this was really stale/stunted/awkward

Usually love work that is queer in structure/form/style as well as in storytelling, and the autobiographical feel of the narrative was interesting, but found I was forcing myself to get through each chapter of this

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Death, Transphobia, and Injury/Injury detail

soggycedar's review

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Hate crime, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Minor: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Outing

catch__up's review

hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Blood, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Transphobia, Grief, Car accident, and Outing

Minor: Bullying, Deadnaming, Infertility, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Violence, Medical content, and Alcohol

dearvillains's review

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Ableism, Deadnaming, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Suicidal thoughts

thecolouryes's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

This was a fantastic book. It took me much longer to read than I expected; not because the plot is slow, exactly, things happen at a decent pace, but because there was a lot of content to chew on. It's ultimately a book about identity and choosing to live as opposed to just not being dead. The vampirism is a metaphor, but not in the way you think. (It's a metaphor. It's always a metaphor, even if the creator didn't intend it as a metaphor.) 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Transphobia, Blood, Outing, and Dysphoria

Minor: Body shaming, Deadnaming, Death, Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, and Lesbophobia

vulgarboy's review

emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

Loss of points for deadname existing for the sake of existing, but maybe that's my own personal bias. Anyway, this was interesting. Sol was compelling and complicated, and it was refreshing to read about characters above the age of 35 still actively struggling with things like gender identity and sexuality. It proves that those are fluid, and it is never too late to change. I feel like the book was more character focused than plot focused, which isn't a bad thing! I just wish it had a little more about how certain things worked. I liked the normalization of vampirism, the cast of very dynamic and complicated characters. Yet, when I finished, I found myself not aching for any of them or wishing for more. It was a simple wrap up, a concise ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident

pobi's review

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

A very good book, but a bit too sad and existential (and romancey) for my taste tbh. I liked the way it played with form, and it's nice to read a book about trans masc people!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Blood, Car accident, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Infidelity, and Dysphoria