![]() ![]() There’s a certain genius to just how monstrous this world is, and it made me genuinely uncomfortable at times. All the cis people are rabid bigots or literal monsters and trans people are caught in the crossfire, constantly defending themselves? Good plotting, vivid images, and characters that fascinate even when you can’t stand them.īut on the other hand, c’mon now. ![]() War ensues, with two very different trans women–Beth and Fran–taking center stage despite their difficult personal relationship. Instead of banding together to protect themselves from the monster-men, an alarming number of the cis women are TERFs and make it their mission to hunt down and eradicate the remaining trans people out of pure spite. ![]() The only people left are women and a few trans men who weren’t on T when the pestilence hit. In the near future, a plague turns anyone with high testosterone into a literal violent, dangerous, disgusting beast. On the one hand, it’s a gender parable wrapped in dystopian horror. I’m not sure I know what I think about this book. In the interest of practicing what I preach, before you read this review, I’ll direct you here and here to two reviews by readers that made me consider my perspective a little more closely.) (EDIT: I tend not to read other reviews before I write my own, and it’s come to my attention that there are a lot of trans readers and writers that have very pointed #ownnormal critiques of this book. ![]()
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