Reviews

Transmogrify! by G. Haron Davis

telltalelakej's review

4.25

origin story: 3.5

halloween love: 5 (sonora reyes strikes again 🫶)

verity: 4

dragons name themselves: 4.5

high tide: 4.25

in a name: 5

bite the hand: 3.5

if i can’t have love, i want power: 4

the hallow king: 4.5 (i support trans rights /and/ trans wrongs 😌) 

genderella: 4.5

seagulls and other birds of prey: 4

bend the truth, break it too: 3.5

espejismos: 5

the door to the other side: 5

bay22's review

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

nikkitaylor19's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-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

4.0

rkedin's review

dark funny inspiring relaxing 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

amazingracerose's review against another edition

5.0

What an incredible anthology of trans fantasy

tianarose's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring

4.75

lexisun's review

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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

5.0

Loved: basically everything! I laughed and I cried and then I cried again. A huge, cathartic fuck you to JK Rowling. 

Didn’t love: I don’t super relate to YA protags anymore, but that’s just because I’ve aged out of them.

wolfbxy_nate's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective fast-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

4.0

beyoubefreereadbooks's review against another edition

4.0

As always with anthologies, there were some short stories I liked more than others but on the whole, I enjoyed some of the short stories so much I’m giving the rating a 4 instead of a 3. I definitely enjoyed the magic theme- I’m no longer much of a fantasy reader, but teen me definitely was and definitely would have loved this. I do feel like a lot of the short stories had the similar pigeonhole of binary roles they had to break out of, I would have loved to see more variety of experiences. There were a few things I actively wasn’t wild about- the “lesson learned” from Sarah Mayhew and how suicide was handled in the last short story. Favorites were probably Dragons Name Themselves; Bend the Truth, Break It Too; and Espejismos.

christina_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring 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