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catacarstairs 's review for:
The Unbinding of Mary Reade
by Miriam McNamara
I liked it, but it definitely wasn't what I was expecting. I thought we would get action! Pirate lesbians taking over the seas! But it really was a bit boring if I might say that?
Mary was definitely the saving point of this story for me. I liked their journey accepting themselves, sometimes stories like this are very dismissive of trans characters but I feel like this book was careful not to do that. It was weird that they used female pronouns even until the end for Mary, when it was clear that they weren't comfortable being called a girl, but otherwise Mary's internal battle and journey was very interesting and I was glad to read it. I'm a cis girl though so I'm not sure how non-binary and trans people would feel about it, whether it was good representation or not I think whatever the case it's weird that it's marketed as a lesbian romance when I really don't think after reading this that Mary would call themselves a girl.
As for the romance, that was maybe the worse part of the book for me. Nat was an asshole, and Anne was a manipulative bitch. So I really wasn't rooting for any of them lmao. Not to mention it really was the worst case of insta love I ever seen.
So overall it was okay, I liked that it was original, but I guess I had high hopes for a different kind of book when I started reading this that's why it only gets 3 stars for me
Mary was definitely the saving point of this story for me. I liked their journey accepting themselves, sometimes stories like this are very dismissive of trans characters but I feel like this book was careful not to do that. It was weird that they used female pronouns even until the end for Mary, when it was clear that they weren't comfortable being called a girl, but otherwise Mary's internal battle and journey was very interesting and I was glad to read it. I'm a cis girl though so I'm not sure how non-binary and trans people would feel about it, whether it was good representation or not I think whatever the case it's weird that it's marketed as a lesbian romance when I really don't think after reading this that Mary would call themselves a girl.
As for the romance, that was maybe the worse part of the book for me. Nat was an asshole, and Anne was a manipulative bitch. So I really wasn't rooting for any of them lmao. Not to mention it really was the worst case of insta love I ever seen.
So overall it was okay, I liked that it was original, but I guess I had high hopes for a different kind of book when I started reading this that's why it only gets 3 stars for me