Gender Queer

Subjectively, I'd say this was a 3-star read for me, but I'm really not the target audience for this book and I think it's an important title that needs to exist for a lot of people, which is why I'm not adding an actual star rating to this review.The artwork was lovely and I enjoyed reading about Maia's long journey to self-acceptance, but the storytelling was very all over the place at times, and I quickly grew weary of how frequently the subject returned to sex and masturbation (this is totally a personal thing—again, I'm sure a lot of what is said will be highly valuable to many readers who need to see themselves reflected in these pages, but it felt very repetitive). I also thought the ending was shockingly abrupt, to the point that I scrolled back on my iPad to make sure my copy hadn't glitched past a few pages.Overall, I'd recommend this graphic novel, especially to anyone questioning their identity, but it wasn't for me, and that's fine.✨ Representation: the author is genderqueer and uses e/em/eir pronouns; multiple of the people we meet throughout the memoir are also queer✨ Content warnings for: homophobia, transphobia, misgendering, medical content and trauma ———twitter booktok bookstagram blog