☀️CJ☀️’s Reviews > And They Were Roommates > Status Update

Mostly noting this so i remember. But ranting to kayla made me realize one of my BIGGEST gripes with this book is that it’s such a wattpad ff in the way that it is CONSTANTLY trying to force plot & relationship development and character traits. Sure jasper has a cardboard cutout of himself but in action? He is a VERY selfless person

This plot is so nothing, but I admire the author for desperately trying to make it something

ONE MORE THING! WHY is every teenager transmasc person blessed with the fortune of having top surgery as a minor?? So based on this characterization, I’m miserable all the time but I’m also supposed to be entirely medically transitioned at SIXTEEN? This shit is so unrealistic! Why is there no love for trans people at the beginning of their journey? For trans people that don’t want to medically transition?

Hello I’m already back. I’ve figured out why I hate Charlie: I’m sick and tired of reading books where trans characters are miserable all the time. Let this kid live a little and have fun. I too am miserable all the time but I want to read for escapism and to imagine a world where I am NOT

If I took a shot every time an author made a comment about how UnRuLy and uNtAmAbLe a character’s curly hair is, I would be so dead from alcohol poisoning. I would have been dead in middle school. Why do they hate our hair so much jfc (probably racism) (I say this as if I didn’t literally shave my head bc I hated doing my hair)