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The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club by Doug Henderson
3 reviews
rstegema's review against another edition
adventurous
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? It's complicated
3.25
Fast paced and generally well written. I think having played D&D for a while, I was fairly unimpressed with those scenes in the book, but the overall story is good. The diversity of characters is nice and having lived in Cleveland for a bit, it was cool to see some of the places I've been to being written about!
I don't know why the rival vampire gang was included in the story. There was no conclusion to their arch and nothing important transpired with that group (besides escalating the situation at the bar). Their inclusion seemed kind of unnecessary, tbh.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Homophobia and Sexual content
sara_m_martins's review
TW/ deadname.
Around page 15 a deadname for a trans character is included... I hope this is removed in the final version.
Unfortunately this one was not for me.
I was intrigued by the premise, as someone who has never played D&D but has seen a few play-throughs and found those fun, and as someone who is queer.
I really enjoyed the descriptive writing style and also the way the story inside of a story was told.
I found the tone clashed in the 1st half (sometimes YA sometimes New Adult); the book gets more solid in the 2nd half and i became more invested in the "real-life" plot then.
Other CW: homophobia, religious trauma, mental illness depiction, sexual & violent content.
Thank you to NetGalley and the Iowa University Press for an eARC
Around page 15 a deadname for a trans character is included... I hope this is removed in the final version.
Unfortunately this one was not for me.
I was intrigued by the premise, as someone who has never played D&D but has seen a few play-throughs and found those fun, and as someone who is queer.
I really enjoyed the descriptive writing style and also the way the story inside of a story was told.
I found the tone clashed in the 1st half (sometimes YA sometimes New Adult); the book gets more solid in the 2nd half and i became more invested in the "real-life" plot then.
Other CW: homophobia, religious trauma, mental illness depiction, sexual & violent content.
Thank you to NetGalley and the Iowa University Press for an eARC
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia and Deadnaming
Moderate: Religious bigotry, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, and Hate crime
melaniereadsbooks's review
DNF at 15%
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the gifted review copy of this book.
I really wanted to love this book--Queer D&D sounded right up my alley! But I was immediately brought down by the blatant transphobia about 5 pages in, when the author decided to deadname a trans character for no apparent reason except to explain that they are trans? No. Uh uh. You do not do that. There was no purpose to this deadnaming at all except transphobia, whether intentional or not. I truly hope that line is removed from this book before the finished copy comes out.
The characters were also flat and uninteresting to me in the parts I read, and the weird emphasis on sex in all of the scenes and with the characters for no real reason felt... a little stereo-typy to me. I frankly find it unrealistic that this people who aren't even friends would be so blatantly talking about sex with each other, especially around someone brand new. It kinda felt like the hyper-sexual-queer stereotype in action.
I hope these issues with the representation are fixed before the final copy.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the gifted review copy of this book.
I really wanted to love this book--Queer D&D sounded right up my alley! But I was immediately brought down by the blatant transphobia about 5 pages in, when the author decided to deadname a trans character for no apparent reason except to explain that they are trans? No. Uh uh. You do not do that. There was no purpose to this deadnaming at all except transphobia, whether intentional or not. I truly hope that line is removed from this book before the finished copy comes out.
The characters were also flat and uninteresting to me in the parts I read, and the weird emphasis on sex in all of the scenes and with the characters for no real reason felt... a little stereo-typy to me. I frankly find it unrealistic that this people who aren't even friends would be so blatantly talking about sex with each other, especially around someone brand new. It kinda felt like the hyper-sexual-queer stereotype in action.
I hope these issues with the representation are fixed before the final copy.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Deadnaming
Moderate: Homophobia and Sexual content
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