Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

Nella casa dei tuoi sogni by Carmen Maria Machado

4 reviews

fayemomodu's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Absolutely love this book. As someone who attending college at the University of Iowa I loved reading this as it takes place in Iowa City at the college. The book almost reads as poetry and is very beautiful written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Body shaming

michaelanormand's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Fatphobia, Transphobia, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

rieviolet's review

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

This book deals with an extremely important topic that needs to be voiced and discussed. That said, as a piece of work itself, I liked it so-so. 

I did not get along with the narrative structure, I found the rapid-fire succession of chapters (supposed to show different genres and narrative styles) too much disjointed and confusing. The writing style is a bit too much experimental for me.

I liked much more the chapters that were "essay-like", exploring queer history and theory. However, I think that this mixing of informative chapters together with more literary and elaborately written ones was a bit jarring, it felt like two different books mashed up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Lesbophobia, Body horror, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Abandonment, Mental illness, Sexism, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Gun violence, Medical content, Drug abuse, Torture, Cursing, Car accident, Biphobia, Sexual assault, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Racism, Bullying, Transphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Religious bigotry, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Suicide, and Dementia

embervleo's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Biphobia, Bullying, Violence, Transphobia, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexism, Physical abuse, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Hate crime, Gun violence, Gore, and Fatphobia

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, and Car accident