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Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
fast-paced
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny and Racism
Moderate: Child abuse and Pedophilia
Both moderate warnings only show up at the end of the book, but a character that had been decently present has child pornography in his possession. It is also clear that he participated in child pornography woth a young girl who he is seen taking care of in earlier chapters.
D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
Did not finish book. Stopped at 16%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 16%.
This book, for being an own voices novel, was really gross. There was A LOT of lesbophobic rhetoric, gender essentialism (TERF language) and transphobia. It treats all butch lesbians as being transphobic and frame being nonbianary as a recent fad identity rather than something that has a long storied history in the community.
That's not all, the writing was flat and all of the characters were the same. No unique voices at all.
All together I am extremely disappointed in this book.
That's not all, the writing was flat and all of the characters were the same. No unique voices at all.
All together I am extremely disappointed in this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Transphobia and Lesbophobia
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Did not finish book. Stopped at 34%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 34%.
I honestly did not like the writing in this book, the characters, or the misogyny blatantly displayed. This was a pick for my book club and my wife made it further than I did and reported back some very disturbing/graphic use of sexual assault in a later part of the book and both of us DNF'd because we felt that the violence and objectification of the woman was not conducive to the story at all and just furthered the decent of this book into unreadability.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
The Devouring Gray by C.L. Herman
4.0
Enjoyable read. I think the characters were decently developed overall. Ends in a place where you don't need the sequel to have a full story which i appreciate.