Reviews tagging 'Dysphoria'

The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

11 reviews

its_vendetta'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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Dysphoria, Hate crime, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Deadnaming, Violence, Outing, and Toxic friendship

fanboyriot's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted 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? No

5.0

Read For:

⚽️ Gay Sports

🫥 Hurt/Comfort

🫶 Supportive Family

👨🏽‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾 Secret Relationship

🤝 Wholesome Friendships

Amazing.  Absolutely such an amazing book, the plot, the characters, the relationship, and all the teammates made it wonderful to read. 

I was fully invested in this story, it was so wholesome and heartwarming.  Spencer’s parents were adorable and doing their best.  The coach too was the absolute best.  The found family and wholesome family vibes this book had was like a warm hug.

Spencer going for what he wanted in life, finding the right people to be on his side and help him along the way.  He had trouble with his old school but his new school had his back, his teammates supporting him, it was all written so well.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (5/5)

Release Date: 31, March 2022

POV: Third Person

Spice: 🌶️ (mentioned lightly)

Rep: Black Transmasc (MC), Autism (MC’s brother), Nonbinary (SC), LGBTQIA Characters

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Outing, and Transphobia

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, and Ableism

Minor: Deadnaming and Dysphoria

rockythefreak's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

A wonderful read! I wish I had this book when I was a kid. As an adult, there were a few parts I might have cringed or yucked at (I do NOT want to read about teens exploring sexually, no matter how brief) but I think for teen readers, these moments are important and perfectly done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Outing, Transphobia, Child abuse, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Dysphoria, Religious bigotry, Ableism, Outing, Medical content, and Abortion

Minor: Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Deadnaming, and Sexism

A character is outed to his parents when a girl from his church hears him dump his boyfriend. There is homophobia, transphobia, and racism throughout. The most explicit homophobia comes from a religious context, and religious trauma is a clear factor in one of the character's lives. There is a gruesome depiction of anti-abortion sentiment as well as pre-marital sex being bad, during the soccer team's visit to a haunted house. There is minor ableism to MC's autistic little brother. Someone is referenced as having died of a heroin overdose and having a painkiller addiction. There is a school lockdown when a student gets a death threat.

bookswithbront's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Homophobia

Moderate: Dysphoria, Deadnaming, Outing, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Bullying

smasson13's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

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

2.5

I didn't hate this book. I also didn't love it. 

Technically, there was nothing wrong with it. A little cliche and as though it was filling up with as many tropes and plot devices as possible. Yet, it was so boring. The characters and writing lacked so much depth and detail.

I was expecting a YA novel and instead got a middle grade or lower reading level. As a result, the pace was slow, detail non existent, and characters were empty and unrelatable.

This might be a great option for a teen who has a lower reading level, like a high interest/low level book, but that might be it's niche.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, Blood, Bullying, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Medical trauma, and Outing

dummehure's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted tense slow-paced

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

4.0

This is the gay trans romance we all needed!! Finally a gay romance who's main conflict isn't homophobia. This book depicts the flaws within the LGBTQIA+ community and the struggles trans and non binary people face and how they overlap and differ. The complicated Family dynamic that often occur even if you do have accepting parents are depicted realistically and giving the appropriate amount of weight. I really enjoyed this book!! but also ew straight gays and soccer

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Outing, and Transphobia

ang_mendoza's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

3.5

I was expecting the writing style to be more generic teen/YA but it does a good job sticking to that genre while still flowing well and not feeling too forced. It's a very feel-good type of book that's easy to really connect with. I'm giving it a 4 because it does what it sets out to do really well. 
Also to anyone looking at the content warning, the transphobia is very much not graphic just very relevant to the story so that's probably why people added it.

there's fear and brief mentions of transphobic violence but none that occur. No slurs. Mentions of deadnaming without revealing deadnames and some moderate misgendering. What I really liked was that there's deliberately no indication of the agab of the nonbinary character.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Transphobia

Minor: Bullying, Dysphoria, and Outing

dododenise's review

emotional funny hopeful fast-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

4.0

This was great! Beautifully touching. Full of emotional, funny and soft moments. 
Just the dialogue was a bit chunky and fake at times. But other than that I had an absolute blast. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Minor: Dysphoria and Bullying

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Minor: Outing and Racism

matheo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Outing, Transphobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Racism, Vomit, Death, Addiction, and Drug abuse