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Old Wounds
by Logan-Ashley Kisner
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
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:
Complicated
The premise of “Would *insert crytpid* pursue you if it knew you were trans?” was brilliant, stunning, hilarious! When told along side a compelling and heart wrenching trans horror, you have a recipe for “Books that Kate Eats Up”!!
This story features…
Erin and Max: freshly 18, both trans, exes, running away from home.
The impala: a chariot bearing them towards the promised land (LA)
The monster: small town transphobia and hostility
The “actual” monster: who fucking knows, but it’s big and scary!
The mission: escape Max’s shitty family, escape this shitty transphobes, escape the shitty hick town full of weirdos, go to Berkeley
I don’t even know where to start with this one. I was a little hesitant when we started as the writing was a little stilted, but by about 20% I was so hooked with where the story was going. The ending to this book came around far too quickly for my liking simply because I was having such a great time with it.
Erin and Max are such compelling characters and I really liked how real they felt. Max was so annoying which I think made him more authentic and there was a point where I messaged my book club to comment of the gender affirmity of him being a shitty communicator (yes men, that’s shade). I also really loved how this book dealt the characters trauma and how that trauma was clearly depicted on page. Yes a lot of the trauma processing happens off page at the end, but there were some specific scenes that really demonstrated what I consider to be really realistic responses to awful experiences.
I will absolutely keep an eye out for more work from this author and highly recommend this book to fans of horror/slasher type stories. Also it’s currently the trans rights readathon and this would make a great addition to the TBR!
This story features…
Erin and Max: freshly 18, both trans, exes, running away from home.
The impala: a chariot bearing them towards the promised land (LA)
The monster: small town transphobia and hostility
The “actual” monster: who fucking knows, but it’s big and scary!
The mission: escape Max’s shitty family, escape this shitty transphobes, escape the shitty hick town full of weirdos, go to Berkeley
I don’t even know where to start with this one. I was a little hesitant when we started as the writing was a little stilted, but by about 20% I was so hooked with where the story was going. The ending to this book came around far too quickly for my liking simply because I was having such a great time with it.
Erin and Max are such compelling characters and I really liked how real they felt. Max was so annoying which I think made him more authentic and there was a point where I messaged my book club to comment of the gender affirmity of him being a shitty communicator (yes men, that’s shade). I also really loved how this book dealt the characters trauma and how that trauma was clearly depicted on page. Yes a lot of the trauma processing happens off page at the end, but there were some specific scenes that really demonstrated what I consider to be really realistic responses to awful experiences.
I will absolutely keep an eye out for more work from this author and highly recommend this book to fans of horror/slasher type stories. Also it’s currently the trans rights readathon and this would make a great addition to the TBR!