Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

The Pervert by Remy Boydell, Michelle Perez

3 reviews

vulcanmoon's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Car accident, Outing, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

Minor: Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Fire/Fire injury

citrine's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I cannot describe my love for this book. Its so beautiful and sad and kind. Its affirming and frightening and unbelievably beautiful. I want to cry every time I read it. 
One of the last pictures in the book is a trans girl wearing a shirt of the punk band Against Me! In one of AM!'s songs, there is a line that I think of often (especially when I am low). It's "You want them to notice the ragged ends of your summer dress/You want them to see you like they see every other girl/but they just see a faggot." 

I think this book is about faggotry. Its about being a transgender faggot whose life experience blends being a gay man in some social spaces and a woman in others. The men calling you slurs in the street dont care if youre a woman; youre still just a faggot. The men you fuck at gas stations dont care if youre a woman; youre still just a faggot. Its not a continuity of identity, but of experience. And its rendered so beautifully here. Its funny, its harsh, its cruel. Its an exceptional book. I love it so much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use and Blood

lynxpardinus's review

dark emotional reflective sad

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Deadnaming, Death, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Car accident and Fire/Fire injury