Completed: 2/26/2022
Recommendation: Not Recommended
Recommended By: Was on best seller lists and was long listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction
Review:
This book edges out of erotica and into pornography rather seamlessly. I am not used to reading either. I found the experience uncomfortable. It did not help that I did not find the scenes themselves stimulating, interesting, or needed. Meanwhile, I really understand what "cis" means now. I think that this may kind of fit as a travel book, but the travel is into transsexuality. I just didn't realize that this was the journey, so it wasn't for me. I did not find the sexual acts described disgusting, inappropriate, or surprising--just not the kind of thing that would ever involve me, so adding them in became jarring and kept making clear that this book was not one for me. Perhaps for a transsexual, these scenes are reassuring or validating. It just wasn't for me.
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