Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

118 reviews

katgent's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Murder

sophiafaurs's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Transphobia, and Medical content

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Outing, Physical abuse, Deadnaming, and Dysphoria

franklola's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Outing, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Cancer, Homophobia, Murder, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Chronic illness, Child death, Grief, Gun violence, and Hate crime

shannahtan's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

It took me forever to finish this book, and I honestly didn’t like it. The last third of the book was so slow. It was painful to read the description of Thailand as “poor, dirty, etc

Rosie’s whole conversation with K was cringy. Asking how K had kids. Then K basically making Rosie feel better. It was full on white centering

I started seriously skimming. The end was also very cheesy and too happy ending / live, laugh, love. From the beginning, the binary gendering was annoying. Then just threads of microaggressions from Mr Tongo being described as “every nationality”

Overall, I’d recommend skipping this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime and Transphobia

Moderate: Racism

minibean24's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

I adored this novel. I loved every character and felt a deep attachment to the family. I truly felt the parents' love and concern for their child and appreciated that the book tackled the intricacies of navigating parenting a nonbinary child, even whilst being fully supportive of the child. It forced me to consider different perspectives- all while still showing unconditional love and support for the child's wishes. It felt like a parenting book rolled into a deeply touching novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Body shaming, Bullying, and Cancer

booktwinning's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Bullying, and Homophobia

krissymcgeehan's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Dysphoria, Transphobia, and Body shaming

lilly0201's review

inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, and Transphobia

Minor: Cancer

karadactyl's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Minor: Sexual content

bookaholics_anonymous's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia