Wow! For a book I decided to read for the gay alien tentacle erotica, it sure was some fantastic sci-fi world-buildinContent Warnings: dubious consent
Wow! For a book I decided to read for the gay alien tentacle erotica, it sure was some fantastic sci-fi world-building. Yeah, there's boinking in there, I'd call this more of an intro to a space opera featuring an MM alien/human couple that gets meets under quirky circumstances and bangs a handful of times.
What's that genre called? Erotic romance. Yes. I will absolutely continue with this series. *makes grabby hands at book 2*...more
Content Warnings: transphobia, racism, homophobia, outing, panic attacks, sexual content
I had a hard time getting into Cakewalk from the start. I’d rContent Warnings: transphobia, racism, homophobia, outing, panic attacks, sexual content
I had a hard time getting into Cakewalk from the start. I’d requested it because it was marked as transgender fiction on BookSirens, but I found myself worried when I finally got around to reading the summary. Did I really want to read a book centered on trans experience from the perspective of the self-loathing cis boyfriend?
Cakewalk is follows Bryan, a straight cis black man who has abstained from doing anything that could portray his as deviant or other. He prides himself in his work and cherishes his relationship ship with his outwardly homophobic mother, and doesn’t want to do anything to rock the boat. But Bryan is dating a white trans woman, Nadia, and he doesn’t want anyone to know. The book is about the lengths he’ll go through to keep his normal and fit in in a world that doesn’t even value him.
Honestly, it’s wild. As a black person, I get it. It’s so difficult being seen as equal or capable in white dominated spaces, and it’s so easy to fall into the trap of trying to be seen as one of the good ones but Bryan takes it so far. He’d rather lie and go along shitting on other marginalized people than stand up for them or even himself.
I think stories about transphobia are best left to the trans community. This book could do with some sensitivity readers. From the acknowledgements, it seems like the author us good intentions with this, but it fell completely short. I’d like to pick this authors brain about what his thought process was here.
I don’t recommend this book to trans people. I don’t really know who I would recommend this book for because of how much transphobic language there is. Black people may find, like me, that the depiction of the black community wasn’t unrealistic.
Just so that it’s clear, straight men aren’t queer because they’re with a trans woman. And in case you missed it at the end, trans women are women and referring to their partners as anything but someone who dates women is transphobia and misgendering.
Thank you to BookSirens and the publisher for providing a free copy for me to review....more
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