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A review by citrus_seasalt
Horse Barbie by Geena Rocero
4.0
I won’t be doing a long review because I don’t do that for memoirs(unless they’re phenomenal or terrible), but I will say that the storytelling was engaging and I liked how Rocero detailed the differences in trans culture in the USA and the Philippines. I also loved the photos at the end of all the pageants, it was nice to assign images to different segments and faces to the names mentioned!
My only gripes were that the ending segments felt a little rushed, sometimes it felt repetitive, and I thought some momentum was lost towards the middle. Easily, the strongest part of the novel was the first segment! Geena’s backgrounds as a Christian, transgender woman(originally growing up being registered as, mostly, a “femme boy”), and Filipina had equal importance in different parts of her journey and I liked how she used that to talk about her upbringing(and also growing into her female self).
While not perfect IMO, I’d still recommend checking this out, it’s an interesting read!
My only gripes were that the ending segments felt a little rushed, sometimes it felt repetitive, and I thought some momentum was lost towards the middle. Easily, the strongest part of the novel was the first segment! Geena’s backgrounds as a Christian, transgender woman(originally growing up being registered as, mostly, a “femme boy”), and Filipina had equal importance in different parts of her journey and I liked how she used that to talk about her upbringing(and also growing into her female self).
While not perfect IMO, I’d still recommend checking this out, it’s an interesting read!