Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

2 reviews

sarah984's review

dark slow-paced

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

1.0

This book really disappointed me. The characters are flat and boring, and their reactions to everything are unbelievable. Particularly egregious is

the guidance counsellor who suspects a pupil killed their father, warns a scholarship committee but then never talks to the authorities? More concerned with the integrity of the women in STEM scholarship than her duties as a guidance counsellor I guess.

The entire setup to get to the pivotal moment is ridiculous.

Extremely slow-moving plot, a lot of boring navel-gazing of the Sylvia Plath Tumblr quotes women-are-insane-because-of-blood variety. Implication that people with mental illnesses are dangerous and can only help people by dying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Self harm, and Sexual content

Minor: Ableism, Transphobia, and Vomit

nextkt's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, and Violence