A review by caprivoyant
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom

  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

If you're following me, you probably know I'm not a technical reviewer. I'll let you know how a book made me feel, and what hit home for me, and this book hit home in a way I wasn't expecting. I was hoping for something funny, entertaining, and sweet. This book is all of those things! Yay!

The bit I didn't expect is that the exact thing I needed to hear (needed camaraderie around) in my real life would be in this book too. 

I'm a big sister that had to be a little too much of a big sister when I was too young, if you catch my drift. So the letters from our protagonist to her little sister were like listening to my thoughts to my siblings too. It's hard to break the pattern of being caretaking older sister, so one of the letters from big sister to little just hit me right in the feels. It was something like:

"What we both really need is for me to stop taking care of you and to start taking better care of me."

So we can each learn how to take care of ourselves. (This bit is paraphrased, the struggles of listening to an audiobook).

Anyway! I loved that. It's what I needed to hear exactly when I needed to hear it. 💕




A few other sweet/fun quotes from this one that I don't want to forget, so I'm dropping them at the bottom of this review:

"If learning to take care of yourself means you need to smoke cigarettes and punch snotty white girls, well, I probably shouldn't endorse that or anything, but I'm not going to rag on you about it either."

"Books are like this magical window that you can open no matter where you are. And you fall into a different place that's better than the one you're trapped in."


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