Reviews tagging 'Dysphoria'

Chef's Kiss by TJ Alexander

11 reviews

dreezy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Deadnaming, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Minor: Biphobia, Blood, and Car accident

eatallthestars's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

sage_alexandra's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Biphobia, Misogyny, Blood, Excrement, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

I only gave it 4 stars because I'm not a huge fan of reading queer fiction that isn't "anyone who is queer is established as such from the get go."

I hated that for the first 150 pages, the enby character was being misgendered by everyone bc they hadn't come out yet.

charlottiec's review against another edition

emotional hopeful relaxing fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Deadnaming, Homophobia, and Dysphoria

maeverose's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

3.5

I was worried based on the synopsis that it would be overly cheesy but it’s really not. It is funny though, and the humor  worked for me. You can tell a trans person wrote this book, they definitely understand trans issues and it’s reflected in the book. I loved the conversations about how trans people shouldn’t be expected to teach cis people everything about gender.

My only complaints are the misunderstanding trope and how long it takes for them to finally get together. I do like how everything played out in the end but it was mild torture having to read Simone constantly convince herself Ray didn’t like her. I just wanted them to make out already. But those are mild complaints, overall I had a good time.

I do want to note that there is a lot of misgendering of Ray throughout the story. For the first half everyone, including the main character uses she/her pronouns for them because they aren’t out yet, then once they do come out the antagonists of the book purposefully misgender them every time they interact, and it’s quite infuriating. So if that’s a trigger for you I’d be prepared for that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Deadnaming, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia, Vomit, Medical content, and Dysphoria

Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Fatphobia, Blood, Excrement, and Car accident

Graphic: misgendering, handling of bodily fluids after surgery

friendofdorothea's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

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

4.75

Really great trans representation 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Transphobia, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Deadnaming and Dysphoria

nrhilmer's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Outing

Minor: Dysphoria

arlangrey17's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Transphobia, Medical content, and Dysphoria

potatogrr's review against another edition

• 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Medical content, Gaslighting, and Dysphoria

courtneyclouts's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Blood

Moderate: Biphobia, Bullying, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Dysphoria