Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

告白 Kokuhaku by 湊 かなえ, Kanae Minato

21 reviews

spooderman's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Transphobia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Homophobia, Miscarriage, and Death of parent

spark_lit_the_tree's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal death and Transphobia

bwegz's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Transphobia

cat_mom's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia

chrisljm's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

jaw dropped multiple times

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Death, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia, Miscarriage, and Vomit

anxiousnachos's review against another edition

dark

4.0

Well this is fucked up. Deep dive into the psyche of those involved in the murder of a teacher’s child. It’s told in a very simple, almost innocent style of prose that reminded me very much of Earthlings. I don’t think it’s quite as successful as Earthlings was - I think this needed just a bit more tension and pacing in the emotion of the language used in order to feel a little less repetitive given this is basically the same murder told from multiple POVs.

But I did love the structure otherwise - I loved the way each chapter revealed more and more about the murder, getting more and more fucked up as the book went on. The way each chapter ended on an almost cliffhanger shocking sentence of fucked-up-ness was *chefs kiss*. And that includes the very last line of the entire book.

A dark twisty book about messed up people doing messed up things, and a deep dive into the why of their actions.

Content warnings: child murder, animal cruelty, suicidal ideation, suicide, child abuse, bullying, HIV stigma, misgendering

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, and Murder

neverlandpages4's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, and Murder

Minor: Animal death, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Vomit

alylentz's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Yikes! Not for me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Minor: Transphobia

rileyxchaos's review against another edition

Not here for misgendering trans characters 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

songmingi's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This book was so crazy, there were so many times where I annotated it with "what the fuck". While I ended up enjoying it overall I found parts of the opening uncomfortable in a bad way as opposed to the rest of the book where I was uncomfortable in a good way. So removing half a star for that. 

The pacing was perfect, it's a little slow to start off, the opening monologue can seem long and made up of completely unessacary tangents and strange views, but when the final part of the chapter hits it's like being smacked in the face. Simply jaw dropping. 

I could never predict where exactly the story was going, I was constantly on edge, searching for clues. It was completely crazy, never went where I thought it was going and sometimes things so shocking happened I had to put it down and process it for 10 minutes atleast. 

The different narratives are what makes this book particularly spectacular. Each one provided a small piece of the puzzle, it highlighted the complexity of each of different characters. The writing style for each was so distinct I knew I was reading the perspective of a different person as the chapter changed. 

Speaking of characters I dont think I liked any of them, they are all deeply flawed and unstable. They've lived miserable lives and it shows. However I don't think this a book where you are meant to enjoy or empathise with any of the characters. They are just parts of this incredibly bizarre and messed up story.

I think this is definitely a book reading atleast once. I've yet to read something like it. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia

a trans lady is misgendered in a story told as part of the opening monologue