Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

92 reviews

spooderman's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Outing, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Deadnaming, Bullying, Homophobia, Abandonment, Hate crime, Racism, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Cursing, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Biphobia, and Classism

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Stalking, Child abuse, Grief, Infidelity, and Mental illness

Minor: Lesbophobia, Vomit, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Police brutality, and Physical abuse

gabyisafreeelf's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Racism, Abandonment, Transphobia, and Hate crime

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, and Deadnaming

Minor: Vomit

a_sleepy_berry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Classism, Hate crime, Abandonment, Drug use, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Transphobia

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Bullying, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Biphobia, Racism, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Stalking

rickireadss's review against another edition

4.5

i had the best time with this! it was the perfect upper YA rom-com, with all the swoony moments but also the tough decisions/thoughts that many teens experience. i wish i had had a book like this when i was in high school. so much love for felix!! loved being in his head for the duration of the book. amazing LGBTQIA+ rep in the mcs and side characters!

⚠️: transphobia, deadnaming, bullying, homophobia, outing, hate crime, abandonment, drug use, toxic friendship, racism, emotional abuse

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Transphobia, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Hate crime, Homophobia, Outing, Abandonment, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Emotional abuse, Drug use, and Racism

anton13's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

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

5.0

I loved it. Seriously loved it. Beautiful and captures the trans experience so well. I couldn’t put it down and I seriously flew through it once I was reading. I’m so sad it’s over. I feel like I only read 3 pages and then it was already over

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Bullying

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Abandonment, and Grief

Minor: Religious bigotry, Dysphoria, Hate crime, and Drug use

midnightbelles's review

emotional funny hopeful 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

4.0

This was really sweet and it made me so emotional. I couldn’t stand the love triangle (I did like both guys but the catfishing made me so anxious) but other than that and some things I found annoying in Felix I really enjoyed reading this . I loved most of the characters and I loved getting to read about Felix opening up to love and learning more about himself and his identity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Classism, Deadnaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Racism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Sexual content

marigoldgem's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Homophobia, Bullying, and Deadnaming

brandirecognition's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense 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

3.75

Be warned that the inciting incident is a transphobic hate crime (outing & deadnaming) that continues throughout the story. Hard to read given the rampant transphobia being enacted by US state legislatures, but Felix's personal journey toward loving/accepting all parts himself makes this an affirming trans story. The YA love triangle made this hard to read at times, but the set up and fall out was a realistic seventeen year old problem.

Felix had to feel more secure in himself and his relationships with others before he could be open to understanding that Ezra loved him. The story's trampling on Declan felt undeserved, though, especially because he and Felix's poor communication skills were similar and ended up causing the same problem for each of them.

 
The gratuitous references to Harry Potter were jarring and honestly a huge detractor for me. This book was published in 2020, when Rowling was very much openly a terf. just a bizarre choice
Felix's gender journey was well-written and realistic and definitely made me tear up. 4/5 stars in regards to his continuing journey

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Dysphoria, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Hate crime, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Outing, and Racism

theuncannydani's review

challenging hopeful slow-paced

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

2.0

Very underwhelmed and I don't want to read about teenagers anymore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Dysphoria, Outing, Hate crime, and Transphobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Biphobia, Cursing, Drug use, Stalking, Misogyny, Deadnaming, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Abandonment, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Homophobia, Racism, and Domestic abuse

gwarren's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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

4.5

Beautiful and insightful, definitely worth reading.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Classism, Homophobia, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Transphobia