A review by macykey
Pageboy by Elliot Page

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.25

Firstly, the good. The writing was good and it was a quick read. Now, the not so good. The writing, while good, could be overly flowery. Like Page was trying too hard to sound eloquent and losing their point in the process. The chronology of this book was very hard to keep up with.  Hand in hand with the chronology, the lack of a coherent timeline made it difficult to deduce the purpose of this book. There were parts that made me think it was their relationship to their queerness and how it affected their relationships. And other times I thought it was more of a journal. And other times I thought it was more of a case study on trans-ness’ effect on people’s physical and mental health. It’s possible that this could’ve been all of those things, but the lack of a sequential order made it hard to be any of those things. It was also very explicit. Which isn’t necessarily unheard of in a memoir, but it did surprise me. I will say, there was a point that Page mentioned being infantilized and I found myself slipping into that during parts of this book too, so it does have the ability to make you question yourself and check yourself. 
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