I had to give up on this one. I don't think it'll age well for a number of reasons. Be interesting to revisit in a few years. My main issue with it though was it felt like the author was writing a Netflix tv show rather than a book.

Willow Dearest, I love your massive hair 🥺 My library won't let me put this on hold, so I'll likely have to order it some time. It's okay though, I love buying books. I'm glad to hear you liked it despite some of its flaws. And fuck TERFS!

at chapter 9 so far, a little wierded out by the role of race in the book so far. Or should I say lack there of, as the main characters are not described and the terfs have been the only ones who have been actively described as white

I'm a cis-gender, asexual guy and I'm reading this book now. It's so disturbing and so vile in places...but I truly can't stop reading. She truly is a good writer of horror and I'd love to see this as an edgy hard r-rated movie or show.

I am due to read this next month for a buddyread but I had no idea the Author was Biphobic hmm I will need to have a look for myself before deciding to read it now. Thanks for letting us know.

this review felt like a nice breath mint after the meal that was reading this book, i had felt a lot of .. strange feelings after finishing it and i think this video really encapsulated them! feeling refreshed :)

I’m about halfway though it right now. It’s ROUGH and I have to take a lot of breaks, but holy shiz, it sticks with you.

found your channel after reading Earthlings and wanting to hear what others thought about it! now i come back to your channel regularly because i really love listening to you talk about books!!! thanks so much for sharing your thoughts 💙

Reads your article on more trans books. Sees Detransition Baby is the first on the list. My TBR: Nye Nye I already own that one. Reads the rest of the list. My TBR: Ah shit, here we go again

I hate popculture references unless something is "historical" and they're used sparsely to make it easier to infer the time of setting.

“Please excuse my massive hair” haha *floofs hair* 💜

You’re my go to bookish person for book recommendations. Found your channel when looking for a review on Tell Me I’m Worthless and I really enjoy your content!

Omg! I just finished it!! One heck of ride. But i enjoyed it.

i have a heavily annotated and deeply loved and wrinkled copy that i hope i can get her to sign one day

haha I love the tag line "its gross, read it!" hahaha

4:13 it was mentioned i think early on that t-day happened right after robbie got top surgery so he was off testosterone for a bit then!

Your hair is moving into FABULOUS territory ... I 💜 it! I also love your book reviews. Thank you for what you do here on booktube.

unfortunately the way gretchen treats other people on twitter leaves me not wanting to read what honestly sounds like an interesting book, especially since i’m so tired of cis authors’s gender apocalypse novels. so many authors these days are ruined for me by their access to twitter lol.

I've been seeing this book a lot-thanks for providing a really thoughtful review!

Read the first chapter of this and loved how punch-in-the-gut it was! I really want to read it for how visceral it is, but not sure I can handle the sexual violence right now, but thank you for fueling my interest in this book! Also finding it hilarious when I see people on good reads or even on booktube saying tHiS iS aNtI fEmInIsT 👀 at least I know who to avoid lol

You hair is massive because it is full of souls...there's no need to apologize for that 😌We are of one mind concerning certain gripes had with this book...as much as I love fucking and killing (in fiction), both separately and also when done together, it did feel a tad gratuitous here! I also agree that at points the characters read exceptionally immature...in a way that removed me from the intensity of the story. 😮‍💨

This book was so painful to read. I could only read a page or two at a time without pausing. Triggering and traumatic as heck, but WOW I loved it so much!!! I also made a video reviewing it and became a blubbering mess 😭I'm so glad that you've read it and shared it here on your channel. Since the conservatives got wind of this book the author's been inundated with TERF hatred, so any positive reviews or even genuine, honest critique is so much needed to counter the bigotry. But yeah, even in this fantasy scenario so much of this book feels real. This is how trans people are treated in this world.

Firstly, as a cis woman, I’d like to apology for my ignorance. Secondly, I sadly agree that this isn’t far fetched and that it heartbreaking to me.

Your hair is amazing! When can I play with it? 😘

i read the sample, the disgusting imagery about eating a man’s balls and imagining that it’s a half-oyster totally made me hooked, i can’t buy it and it’s not at my local library or on libby so i’m requesting it but even though the biphobia is a bit hurtful i haven’t stopped thinking about this book i really want to read

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nothing to excuse about that massive hair, you look glorious

Honestly it's just a slightly below average book. It only got popular cause the author made some controversial statements.

Ya gotta love it when the man calling himself a woman does the standard “soyboy” face to the camera