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Very slow moving, and felt like we hardly get to know the characters at all.
Just moving too slow for me right now, I’ll come back to it later.
Finding it hard to get into these stories right now. Might try again another time.
I realized I no longer had any idea who was who and how they were related to each other and that I no longer cared.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Incest
Just not in the right headspace for a book like this right now. Will try again another time.
The writing unfortunately read more like a plot outline than a novel, with a lot of clunky expository conversations and inserted backstory instead of action.
Thanks to Vintage Books for the free copy of this book.
Paul works at a gay club in the '90s, out and proud and dating extravagantly. Paul has a secret, though. He can change his body at will - not only changing his hair or his height, but also his sex.
I wanted to love this book so, so much. I am here for gender bending. I am here for intense film nerdery. I am here for grungy bar basements and music festivals and '90s nostalgia. But at a third of the way through the book with a plot barely visible, I had to give up.
I don't know if this changes by the end of the book, but there was not nearly the level of introspection about and playing with gender as I'd hoped. It was less "gender is a construct" and more "I have boobs now." And unfortunately, a series of sexual encounters doesn't make a plot, even if Paul's body was different each time. Also, several references to pee coming out of the vagina? Maybe I'll try this again someday and see it from another angle.
Paul works at a gay club in the '90s, out and proud and dating extravagantly. Paul has a secret, though. He can change his body at will - not only changing his hair or his height, but also his sex.
I wanted to love this book so, so much. I am here for gender bending. I am here for intense film nerdery. I am here for grungy bar basements and music festivals and '90s nostalgia. But at a third of the way through the book with a plot barely visible, I had to give up.
I don't know if this changes by the end of the book, but there was not nearly the level of introspection about and playing with gender as I'd hoped. It was less "gender is a construct" and more "I have boobs now." And unfortunately, a series of sexual encounters doesn't make a plot, even if Paul's body was different each time. Also, several references to pee coming out of the vagina? Maybe I'll try this again someday and see it from another angle.