• Book Reviews,  Fiction

    Starting from Scratch by Jay Northcote

    12th June 2018
    Cover of Starting from Scratch (Jay Northcote)

    Starting from Scratch (Housemates #5) by Jay Northcote

    accurate trans portrayal, hot sex, awesome people

    Most people were obsessed with genitals. Gay guys were all about the dick and straight guys were all about tits and pussy. It was something you took for granted, a fact of life, until you realised you were trans and then suddenly began to see gender through a totally different lens. Definitions of masculinity and femininity became more flexible, less rigid, and not so focused on body parts.

    This is my first attempt to read a sort-of-erotic M/M romance fiction, and also a first novel with a trans lead.

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  • Book Reviews,  Fiction

    Keeping Long Island by Courtney Peppernell

    8th June 2018
    Cover of Keeping Long Island (Courtney Peppernell)

    Keeping Long Island by Courtney Peppernell

    Wow.

    This book deserves so much more attention! I finished it in less than a day and was left feeling very, very loved. It was written in a similar format as The Perks of Being a Wallflower was, as both protagonists dealt with mental health issues by writing letters to strangers, but that is not to say that these books were at all alike in contents.

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