Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

31 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

This really takes me back to a lot of insecurities and feelings I had when I was in high school, namely, being curious about romantic relationships and feeling unworthy of them. The author captures those feelings very well. I liked this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Alcohol, and Bullying

Moderate: Abandonment, Deadnaming, Drug use, Homophobia, and Medical content

Minor: Emotional abuse, Suicide, and Racism

mme_carton'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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Deadnaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Outing, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

Moderate: Medical content

jjpope's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-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: Abandonment, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, and Outing

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Medical content, and Sexual content

valereads's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

 "It's easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance."

When an anonymous person puts up a gallery of Felix's pre-transition photos in their school's foyer, Felix is pretty sure he knows who's responsible: Declan Keane. Felix has a plan to get revenge: he's going to catfish him, only then Declan confesses that he's falling for Felix's alter ego and Felix might be falling for him too.

This beautiful contemporary novel follows Felix as he deals with complicated friendships, falling in love for the first time and questioning his gender. I absolutely adored this book and cannot recommend it highly enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Transphobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, and Dysphoria

Minor: Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content

emily_mh's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-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

This book is officially my new favourite book of 2021. I've just finished it and I'm at a loss of what to say; it just means so much to me. I loved the conversations it held, such those about pronouns and transphobic "feminists", but also ones about love and what this feels like and looks like and how you are deserving of it. Felix was an incredible main character. He had so much confusion and hope and I felt so caught up in his journey of self discovery and acceptance. He is a character that is going to stay with me for a long time. 

However, this book deserves 5 stars not just because of how meaningful it was to me, but also because it was just GOOD. The pacing was fantastic; I read it in two sittings. The romance was gorgeous and done so, so well. The book was also just so poetic. I've highlighted so many places, and the ending was perfect. I genuinely love this book so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Abandonment, Bullying, Deadnaming, and Outing

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Cursing, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Emotional abuse, Medical content, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Ableism, Blood, Death, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Suicide, and Vomit

roamingfictionalworlds's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

How I enjoyed this book! I highly recommend that you listen to the audiobook if you are able. Logan Rozos did such an incredible job bringing the characters to life, especially Felix.

Felix has never been in love. He is Black, transgender and queer and feels that his identities count against him in this regard. We follow Felix as he experiences love for the first time, questions his relationships and gender identity. 

Kacen Callender created a cast of wonderfully diverse characters that feel real and aren't without flaws. The book was insightful and inspiring, painful at times and unapologetically queer. Also, I absolutely adored the friendship relationships in this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Bullying

Minor: Medical content, Alcohol, Deadnaming, Racism, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

Content warnings:

Transphobia, bullying, cyberbullying, abandonment, underage drinking, weed, medical content (surgery, injection), deadnaming, misgendering, outing, catfishing, cursing

darkmattersoybean's review against another edition

emotional 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, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Body shaming

Moderate: Abandonment and Sexual content

sarahaf712's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Bullying, and Transphobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Hate crime, and Medical content

Minor: Violence, Stalking, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

peachani's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Deadnaming, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Medical content

spiritedfaraway's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

“For trans and nonbinary youth: You’re beautiful. You’re important. You’re valid. You’re perfect.” 

I have so many feelings, I was going to drag reading this out even longer because I absolutely fell in love with Kacen Callender’s writing, but I just blew through the last hundred pages. I’ll write a longer review later, just know that I love this.

“I’m not flaunting anything. I’m just existing. This is me. I can’t hide myself. I can’t disappear. And even if I could, I don’t fucking want to. I have the same right to be here. I have the same right to exist.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Racism and Deadnaming

Minor: Medical content

There is also public outing, misgendering, online harassment, catfishing, doxxing, disownment due to sexuality discussed, and parental abandonment.