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Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
3.0

This book had so much potential. The basic plot is so compelling- transwoman wants baby with transwoman partner, transwoman detransitions to man and knocks up cis woman boss, detransitioned man proposes raising boss’s baby with transwoman ex because being a father is too masculine for him- and yet, Torrey Peters more or less blundered the telling of it. Her writing style is sort of off beat. The heart of the story is the characters and their growth and all too honest truths, and yet I still feel like I never really got to know Reese and Katrina. I did, however, learn a lot about the inner-workings, for a lack of a better phrase, of the trans community (the race discussion was particularly interesting). An interesting read for sure, but not one I would subject just anyone to.