l1ndz7's reviews
566 reviews

What a wonderful autobiography and useful guide on gender identity. I encourage everyone to pick this book up. This topic is explained so well and so personally, you’re bound to find something that resonates with you. There were questions in here that I even troubled with as an adolescent. Life’s a journey and we’re always learning about each other, about ourselves because we are always changing. I LOVED this! 

Also, I can’t believe this book is banned??? This should be the last book ever banned! This book is more useful than a lot of books that aren’t banned. That being said, this book does talk about serious topics that may not be appropriate for anyone under 15 or 16 years old. 

I really loved the diversity and illustration style in here. I’ll also read anything that involves flying on brooms! I did wish that the story was alittle deeper and that it had more smooth transitions to different scenes. I’m sure that’s difficult to do in this medium and respect and appreciate the writers and illustrators that worked on this ❤️

This was a cute and unique novella. I wonder how similar this is to Grady Hendrix’s book, Horrorstör? Might be a good rec for this. I also kept thinking about the Fractured Fable series by Alix E. Harrow because of the inter-dimensional traveling they did with the device called Finna. Both good recs I think. I might check out Horrorstör next honestly. 

I really liked that this book didn’t try to force the two MCs

who were saying and had broken up back together.

It was nice seeing them be content apart. A lot of the dialogue between them is just bickering and arguing and if this was any longer that might have driven me insane lol. The inter-dimensional travel was really cool too but i wish it was explored in more depth instead of exs bickering 🤣 

I used to work in retail and so a lot of the commentary made about that resonated with me. Thank God I got out when I did because retail work is soul-sucking. Overall, a great read for Pride Month. It was utterly weird in the best kind of way 

Best trans horror I’ve ever read. What an utterly compelling, gruesome, and dark story. A must-read!!! The less you know, the better. Just let Andrew’s incredible writing sink you into the story. 

I did feel that the ending wrapped up a bit too quickly and that’s why it’s not a full five stars. The ending really has to stick for me. Other than that, I am so happy I picked this up and I can’t wait to read more from this trans author!!! 

The only thing I learned about Hawaii in school was about Pearl Harbor and that wasn’t even about Hawaii LOL it just took place there. How sad is that? Why was I never taught about the indigenous peoples of Hawaii and their active resistance to being colonized by the US? Because that’s not what they want you to think about your country when you’re at such an impressionable age. It’s disgusting. 

According to the records found in this book, the British were the first to come and they came in with guns blazing. Ruthless and merciless. Wiping away their culture and identity just so you can use their land? Disgusting. Calling them savages and animals and uncivilized just because they’re a different color and have a different culture and language? Disgusting. Does this sound familiar? I’m sure it does because this is the US’s true history. They’re either the ones colonizing or helping another white nation colonize. 

I’m so happy this book exists. I highly recommend the audiobook because the author actually speaks in their native language (and translate it of course) and it is so cool to hear. The author really did their research and I appreciate the hard work put into this book. This is a piece of history that has been forgotten purposely. Im so glad we have brave people like the author and translator/narrator of this book who are able to teach us the truth. 

This is a feminist retelling of Red Riding Hood written in second person. It touches on toxic masculinity, women empowerment and shame. 

It uses menstruation as an empowering tool instead of something to be ashamed of, which I appreciated. It definitely feels taboo to talk about. Judging about the amount of reviews saying how gross it was that menstruation was a component of the story, I wish talking about it was more normalized. At first, I was taken back by how much menses was mentioned but once I understood the purpose, it didn’t bother me as much.  

This book portrays toxic men as wolves which was great but her message at the end of the book implies that the only way to deal with this is to treat men the same way they’ve treated women. I don’t agree with that message at all and judging by the reviews, a lot of people heard the same message. At first, I thought this book was portraying all men as wolves but it was refreshing to see that our FMC had a wonderful, loving, supportive bf the whole book. 

I wish this wasn’t categorized as YA because there is explicit content in here that I wouldn’t let someone as young as twelve to be reading. I would categorize this more as new adult.

This book is fucked up. Definitely check the trigger warnings before reading. I can’t reconcile the MMC being

a stalker and a vigilante at the same time.

they’re complete opposites and him stalking the FMC makes no sense.. instead of meeting her like a normal person, you just decide you’re going to stalk her and she’s going to love it? Right. Also, him not having history with this in any way just makes his character unbelievable. The ending did leave off on a cliffhanger but I’m not really interested in continuing…at least at this moment. 

This was soooooooo good!!! Definitely the best memoir I’ve read this year. I loved the comparison of different stories from the Quran and comparing them to how she’s living life as a queer, Muslim immigrant. So well done. I feel like her and I could be friends. I wish her all the best and hope she comes out with more books 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

If you didn’t care for the memoir, We’ve Always Been Here, also by a queer Muslim immigrant, you’ll love this one. It’s a much better memoir imo 

What an amazing sci-fi trilogy 🥹🥰 I love the “found family” trope, how the AI were the good guys, and just the space opera-ness of this. It was so much fun and Breq is easily one of my favorite non-human-but significant-beings I’ve ever read about!!! 

This wasn’t anything new or exciting.. so formulaic and a bit boring. Also

the unexpected pregnancy

was a major 🙄🙄. 

The good things.. 
-I loved that Cade was a single dad with the cutest son named Luke who I even fell in love with. Luke was the saving grace of this book otherwise I probably would have given it like a 2.75 but they really made him the focal point and I was so happy to see that because that’s exactly how it should be imo. 
-That Cade was a cowboy but it wasn’t overstated like I feel like it would be in any other cowboy romance.. lmao. 
- loved Cade’s family. They were all so sweet and loving. Would have loved to see more of them. 
-This book didn’t feel like its length. Very readable. 

The not-so-good things..
The way Cade and Red’s relationship started was a bit ick… 
The dialogue was… 😬😬😬
Storyline was super predictable
Instalove trope (which I despise) even though she tried to make it a slow burn since the book was 400 pages???!!! 
Don’t even get me started on the ending it like left off in the middle of a scene..so strange. 

Despite all that I can see why this series is popular. Will I be reading anymore from this series? Absolutely not.