Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher

4 reviews

biggaywave's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Hate crime

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

1.0

this book honestly just made me sad :/ like i see where the book was going and i understand what is was trying to do but it just falls extremely flat. between the misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and fatphobia....theres nothing to redeem it. and i get that its told through the eyes of a young man who has a BUNCH of stuff thrust upon him all at once, but he has such little time in the book where hes actually TRYING to be a good person that i really dont like logan at all by the end of the book. i LOVE sage though and she was treated so badly...like by the end of the book all thats really happened is her life has been ruined and shes been horribly traumatized. the only silver lining is that she ends up surviving. thats the only good thing that happens in the entire book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

20sidedbi's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

UFFDA. CHECK THE CONTENT WARNINGS. If you are interested in reading a book from a cis, straight boys perspective about wrestling with his attraction to a trans girl, then go for it. But if you aren't interested in hearing a lot of transphobic stuff in the process of the boy's self-discovery, I wouldn't read this.
The ending isn't as bad as it could have been, but it's definitely not a happy one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Transphobia, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Blood, Bullying, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

opalchainsaw's review

2.0

this was okay in some parts but it was mostly just frustrating and made me kinda angry...

logan was a piece of shit like 95% of the time? he had some good moments but they never lasted very long, his "character development" at the end was barely even substantial. he was very homophobic and almost violently transphobic, (tw for this spoiler)

like wanting to actually punch sage after finding out she is trans and thinking about hurting her if anyone found out that he kissed her because that would "make him a f*g"??

there was a lot of misgendering and slurs, especially by logan, and equating gender with genitalia. he was basically disgusted by her but then went back to wanting her after finding out she has boobs from taking hormones? wtf how did this win a stonewall award tbh

the only good part of this book was sage, i'm glad she didn't get back with logan at the end because he doesn't deserve her

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Transphobia