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All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages
by Saundra Mitchell
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Trans Throughout the Ages is a collection of queer stories set throughout many different eras - where they always were, but many stories don't reflect this reality. There were new stories intermingled among queer retellings of some favourite folktale stories.
This anthology started out on an incredibly high note with the story of Roja by [a:Anna-Marie McLemore|6434877|Anna-Marie McLemore|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1516319453p2/6434877.jpg], a gorgeous retelling of Red Riding Hood set in 19th century Mexico with a transgender romance. This was a beautifully written story and I was just enraptured by the storyline and the beauty of the writing. You could tell that this author really knows how to write a transgender character respectfully and I would love to see all transgender characters get the same level of respect and authenticity.
"Though everyone else feared that our rage might kill them, the lives it more often took were ours."
If I'm being honest, I was slightly disappointed throughout the rest of the book because no other story quite matched up to Roja. Perhaps my opinion might be different on the rest of the book if Roja was positioned towards the ending of the book, so that I wasn't comparing the quality of the other stories to Roja.
I am so happy that there are queer stories being written and being written well - it's about time.
This anthology started out on an incredibly high note with the story of Roja by [a:Anna-Marie McLemore|6434877|Anna-Marie McLemore|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1516319453p2/6434877.jpg], a gorgeous retelling of Red Riding Hood set in 19th century Mexico with a transgender romance. This was a beautifully written story and I was just enraptured by the storyline and the beauty of the writing. You could tell that this author really knows how to write a transgender character respectfully and I would love to see all transgender characters get the same level of respect and authenticity.
"Though everyone else feared that our rage might kill them, the lives it more often took were ours."
If I'm being honest, I was slightly disappointed throughout the rest of the book because no other story quite matched up to Roja. Perhaps my opinion might be different on the rest of the book if Roja was positioned towards the ending of the book, so that I wasn't comparing the quality of the other stories to Roja.
I am so happy that there are queer stories being written and being written well - it's about time.