Reviews tagging 'Dysphoria'

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

19 reviews

mandala_eyes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Outing, Rape, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, Hate crime, and Homophobia

kianga_black's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful lighthearted sad tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Hate crime, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

Minor: Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Outing, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Death, Biphobia, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Rape, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Bullying, Violence, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

vanesst's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Deadnaming, Hate crime, Suicide attempt, Outing, and Transphobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, and Addiction

Minor: Animal cruelty, Drug use, Misogyny, Abortion, Mental illness, Rape, and Religious bigotry

hazeljade's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This might be my new personal favorite book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Outing, Physical abuse, Medical content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Deadnaming, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Dysphoria, Lesbophobia, and Hate crime

Moderate: Grief, Hate crime, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol

With all of these triggers it is amazingly well written. Looking at all the topics covered I'm surprised how well each was handled so my overall impression of the book was unbelievably positive and encouraging.

bittersorbitol's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective sad tense 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

3.75

The romance wasn't my favourite, but I loved the main character and her friends, as well as the narration style of jumping between past and present scenes. I'm engaged to a trans woman, and while this book certainly does touch on a lot of important and relative topics it's important to keep in mind that a lot of it is fictionalized for ease of understanding (this is addressed directly by the author)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Outing, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, and Transphobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Bullying

Minor: Toxic friendship and Violence

Deals with a lot of realities of being a trans woman, includes details about

a suicide attempt, as well as a forced public outing resulting in bullying

. Major trigger warning for

attempted rape of the MC near the end of the novel, the attempted rapist's actions are described in detail

penguinsquack's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Suicide attempt, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Medical content, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Transphobia

lindsayhotrod's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Hate crime, Suicide attempt, Violence, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Bullying, and Suicide

Moderate: Deadnaming and Homophobia

Minor: Sexual violence, Drug use, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Classism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

nicholasl_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Bullying, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Hate crime, Outing, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Religious bigotry

cryscries's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

A very wonderful book and I couldn’t believe this was a debut novel. It was very well written and really tugged at the heartstrings to the very end - like literally, it built up with so much joy and then boom sad bomb. In a way I like the way it ended -

grant and Amanda don’t exactly have a for sure “they got back together” like what I feel most romances do (even tho I totally believe they did get back together in my hope let me have this and be a hopeless romantic) but I feel in a “realistic sense” it was right for that to happen because it’s something new that a cis straight man has to understand and learn. Definitely wasn’t expecting it but I was super happy with the decision

 

Overall I was glad to read this book (finally) and highly recommend if anyone wants to start off reading a book from a trans author.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Outing, Transphobia, Rape, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Bullying

Minor: Drug use and Dysphoria

babudarabu's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Outing

Moderate: Deadnaming, Homophobia, Sexual content, Dysphoria, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Mental illness, and Blood