Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

Zpověď lišáka by Jordy Rosenberg

22 reviews

dziggetai's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Gore, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, and Transphobia

Moderate: Slavery, Excrement, Drug use, Alcohol, Classism, Murder, Colonisation, Cursing, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Vomit

ellenigrace's review against another edition

4.5

I much preferred the narrative about Jack & Bess to the footnote narrative about Dr Voth, but the latter didn't spoil the book for me and in some places did add to it. I didn't like that

Spoiler

the collective group of queer editors

wasn't expanded on - for the sake of how much it was touched on it could have been left out, for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Dysphoria, Blood, Gore, Body horror, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Transphobia

slinkmalink's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

I'm not sure exactly what I expected from this book and I remain unsure exactly how to categorise it? as it is very different from anything else I've read even in format which was a very cool way to write it I thought, and tho took a little bit of time to get to the mystery bit I was fully absorbed when it did
Vaguely knew about Wild (from horrible histories ofc) but I hadn't heard of jack Sheppard at all n I thought they conveyed a really vivid picture of crime/prison system in that era that was v interesting
Also a very different perspective on gender than u usually get which was interesting 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia and Racism

quinnyquinnquinn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective slow-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Transphobia

Moderate: Racism, Medical content, and Blood

Minor: Child abuse

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Xenophobia, Confinement, Death, Dysphoria, Classism, Alcohol, Gore, Racism, Colonisation, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Grief, Murder, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Police brutality, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Excrement, and Violence

readingtrees's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad 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

5.0

i'm a pretty sensitive bean, but was still able to read this book. highly highly recommended for anyone looking for a (broad arc of book)

Spoiler

narrative/historical fiction, from the perspective of trans masc individuals, engaging with/resisting legalized violence

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Alcohol, Colonisation, Confinement, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

Minor: Trafficking, Lesbophobia, and Slavery

shipyrds's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense 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? Yes

3.75 with the frame narrative, 4.5 if you skip the footnotes (shocking coming from me!) I held off on reviewing this for a while, because I wanted to percolate on it. I actually started reading the book way back in January in audio format, was moving through it fairly slowly, got concussed, and simply could not get back into it. Physical format was much more successful! In part, I think, the audio format does not handle the extensive and discursive footnotes particularly well, and in part because the beginning of the book is heavily concerned with Dr. Voth, and I simply didn't like him very much. I've read about a lot of sad-sack transmasc characters this year, and only some of them are enjoyable. He got a lot more bearable in print! 
That being said, the narrative of Jack Sheppard is well-done; Rosenberg nails a particular sort of 18th-century cadence (possibly anachronistic; I don't really care.) Jack's narration is as slippery as the thief himself, both poetic and crude. The end of the book is spectacular, and Bess's discussion of the Fens is lovely. 
Even in print, though, I found myself wishing the footnotes weren't there at all - as much as I enjoy a metanarrative, I think there's enough metanarrative present in the "18th century" portion itself, which touches on environmental destruction, the carceral state, the new calcification of racial categories, and transgender lives and loves. I don't think the book actually needed our modern day Dr. Voth in order to make the narrative speak to the present; it does that just fine on its own without the frame narrative, and I ended up getting distracted trying to track the details of his near-future academic dystopia. 
So, overall: great book, loved Jack and Bess, (shockingly for me) could have done without the frame!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Transphobia, Slavery, Xenophobia, Racism, Police brutality, and Medical content

ninjamuse's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Death of parent, and Police brutality

Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual content, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Forced institutionalization

streberkatze's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Excrement

morelsupport's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? Yes

3.0

I thought this would be a book about being a thief, but it was actually a book about transitioning (this is a highly simplified plot summary). I thought it was really interesting how it incorporated anti-capitalism and anti-racism and transness into the story, but I honestly didn't find it very engaging, and I wasn't tense at the points where I was supposed to be tense. The thing I enjoyed the most were the footnotes, and the way that the person who was reading these confessions was a character in the same way that the subjects of the confessions were characters. I also really liked the resources provided. However, I just honestly didn't find this that engaging, and it was very jarring when modern concepts of transness were inserted in this supposed firsthand source. I really wished that Jack's feats of thievery that got him famous were more prominent. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Dysphoria, Racism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Police brutality