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The Toll by Neal Shusterman
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I can only sigh about the gender non conforming character in this book. It seems like a poor attempt at being inclusive that really comes off as offensive. A character that was raised genderless that *chooses* to be a man when it's cloudy and a woman when it's sunny. The first error is representing gender as something so fickle as to be changed by the weather, and the second is showing it as a choice. If I saw this outside of this book, I would assume it was a parody meant to invalidate the transgender community. Every time something about the characters gender comes up in this book, it makes me incredibly uncomfortable. I can look past it, hoping that it was put in there with good intentions, to say that this was a pretty good ending to the series. I feel it could have been a lot better though. 4/5 without the bad character, 3/5 with.
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Reading Progress

December 19, 2021 – Started Reading
December 19, 2021 – Shelved as: to-read
December 19, 2021 – Shelved
December 23, 2021 – Finished Reading

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