Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

99 reviews

akvolcano's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.25

Fuuuucccckkkk, this book was such a fantastic queer story! Treasure the first time you read it, so cute!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, and Alcohol

there are sex scenes in this book

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense 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? No

3.0

I don’t know how to feel about a sci-fi romance like this, if I’m being honest. The premise felt unrealistic and a bit difficult to wrap my head around with all the space time continuum stuff going on but the characters are beautifully written, unique, and loveable as all hell. The love stories are sweet & strong. The found family in this book is so genuine and real. I just wish the main thread of the story wasn’t about traveling through time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Bullying, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Classism

a_win_in_clear_rain's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-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? Yes

4.5

The first sapphic book and the first romance book I read, and it pulled me into a whole world of these books, so I'll always love it (take this with a grain of salt because I know I'm biased)!
Great diversity and representation too!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing and Hate crime

Minor: Death, Transphobia, and Alcohol

jazdono's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-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

This book is super cute and well written. It took me a bit to get into it because it starts pretty slow, but once you meet all the characters and get the plot established, it picks up. The book has a great cast of characters with casual queerness (i.e., queerness that isn’t the focal point of the character’s story) sprinkled in, which is always nice. 

Towards the end, I started to get worried that we were getting another queer tragedy where the main characters didn’t end up together, but then the plot pulled a nice bait-and-switch, which was a relief. The ending feels almost like a feel-good fanfic with how nicely it wraps up, but after seeing so many queer tragedies in media, I’m always happy to get a cheesy happy ending for my sapphic characters.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

kalmia31's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual content, Grief, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Death, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

kaetheluise_nckl's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Blood, and Police brutality

semi-public sex, exploration of depression and anxiety, memory loss and cognitive issues, familial estrangement, familial death, missing persons, implied PTSD, Homophobic violence and hate speech, the AIDS crisis, childhood neglect, arson

dricatica's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia, Transphobia, Violence, and Lesbophobia

v1l25's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, Transphobia, Grief, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Violence and Xenophobia

Minor: Car accident

12dejamoo's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Dammit Casey. I was so prepared for this to be as disappointing as Red, White & Royal Blue was but it was not. It was, instead, such a good time. McQuiston took the best parts of RW&RB (the friendships/sense of genuine connections and a big group of friends who all love each other) and just multiplied it by 100. The romance is good, yes, but the group of friends!! And they all have really great side relationships going which make me very happy (reminds me of The Love Hypothesis in that way).

I think it was so interesting having a romantic interest who was so cut off from the rest of the characters. Like these big emotional party times can never include Jane, and it maybe just gives space for the other relationships to breathe.

Conceptually, it was a bit ridiculous, but like in an 'it's a romance book, so oh well' kind of way. I also enjoyed the cliché romance elements that I often find lacking in these more 'TikTok-y, cutesy cover' romances. Characters with an incorrigible sweet tooth, protagonists who shut themselves off from love, mean-seeming side characters who actually have huge hearts - all of whom would fit right into a Harlequin/Mills & Boon style romance and I'm so here for it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Biphobia and Transphobia

sophiafaurs's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol