wretched_divine 's review for:

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

3.75

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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: Complicated

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 didn’t like this as much as I thought I would but I do still like it quite a bit. I wasn’t a big fan of the writing style and I found that the timeline tended to jump forward months or years without warning. It is very clearly a labour of love however, and it is a very interesting and important read. If you are interested in queer history and like historical fiction you would probably like it. It does have a lot of heavy content but I didn’t find it to be gratuitous, it was real and unfortunately necessary to tell an accurate story, (though of course you should check warnings if needed). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Deadnaming, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, Outing

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Medical trauma, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic