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I'm a Gay Wizard
by V.S. Santoni
Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my review in any way, and the thoughts expressed are my own.
Content warning for this book: it contains a lot of scenes full of homophobia and transphobia, including slurs and violence. As a queer person, this made me uncomfortable, especially since it continued for so long with little positivity to counteract it. I would have thought that a book with the title of ‘I’m A Gay Wizard’ would be more positive about the gay and trans characters, but a huge portion of it was spent on homophobia and transphobia, it was only at the 60% mark that things started to become more positive in that regard. It was very much just characters taking hit after hit for being queer and it got tiresome quickly, especially since there were other things they could have been bullied about apart from simply being queer.
The writing style was basic and repetitive. It came across as a book with little plot or character development, and challenges arose and were handled very quickly with little problem. Pop culture references were used to do large parts of the heavy lifting, with frequent obvious references to The Matrix and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. There were also numerous times of infodumping or characters randomly telling things that had little relation to the current scene.
Overall, the writing style was a 3 star but the heavy focus on homophobia/ transphobia made it lose a star for me, so I give it 2/5.
Content warning for this book: it contains a lot of scenes full of homophobia and transphobia, including slurs and violence. As a queer person, this made me uncomfortable, especially since it continued for so long with little positivity to counteract it. I would have thought that a book with the title of ‘I’m A Gay Wizard’ would be more positive about the gay and trans characters, but a huge portion of it was spent on homophobia and transphobia, it was only at the 60% mark that things started to become more positive in that regard. It was very much just characters taking hit after hit for being queer and it got tiresome quickly, especially since there were other things they could have been bullied about apart from simply being queer.
The writing style was basic and repetitive. It came across as a book with little plot or character development, and challenges arose and were handled very quickly with little problem. Pop culture references were used to do large parts of the heavy lifting, with frequent obvious references to The Matrix and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. There were also numerous times of infodumping or characters randomly telling things that had little relation to the current scene.
Overall, the writing style was a 3 star but the heavy focus on homophobia/ transphobia made it lose a star for me, so I give it 2/5.