A review by discarded_dust_jacket
The House Witch 2 by Delemhach

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

3.5

This book would be fine (I liked it better than the first one to be honest) if it wasn’t for one very uncomfortable scene:

There is a character in this book that, when the protagonist meets them, is described as a man in a dress using a feminine voice, and is deliberately addressed using he/him pronouns, which set off all sorts of transphobic red flags in my mind. It’s revealed that this character is not in fact trans, but has multiple personalities inside of them, at least one of which being a woman. This didn’t make me feel much better, because even though the character is not actually transgender, the fact remains that the stigma associating transgender people with mental illness is very real and very harmful, and it just gives me a bad feeling about the entire scene/character.
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