Review: Accepting Yourself
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 31, 2013
Transgression - What a beautiful story, one that is very seldom ever told. Sky is a transgender and even though she has both female and male parts, she hates herself or rather the life that she has to live because of it. She has always been made to feel less than, not good enough, a freak of nature. She cannot see her own true beauty. She knows shes pretty on the outside, but thats not where she needs to feel accepted and loved. She wants to be loved for her true self, as she is, how she was created at birth. I thought Theo Fenraven done an outstanding job describing her fears, her feelings, her insecurities and her transgressions. She has done nothing wrong, there is nothing wrong with her but she cannot perceive herself as such. The descriptions the author used to describe her world were so real that I could vision her in her surroundings and her day to day tasks. Sky has had to do some pretty horrible things to get by in this unforgiving, unaccepting world. Even so, those things have served her well in order to provide financial stability in her life and allow her to be independent on herself. If she could only love herself and accept herself as she wants others to do, she could and would be a happy loving person.Enter Zach, a bi-sexual, who has never really admitted that to anyone other than a couple close friends. He has a hard time coming to terms with it himself. He fears he will be labeled as gay and scrutinized for it so he keeps it to himself. He loves women, has sex with women, but he also loves men. He loves the male body, the smells, textures, and the sex. He has sex with men probably more frequently than women and he likes it. a lot. The perfect person for Zach would be someone who could offer him the best of both worlds.  The female, with her beauty and smooth, flawless skin. The male with his strength, bone structure, and male parts that he craves. He knew, when he first meets Sky, she had something special going on.  He just didnt understand then how perfect she would be. How more perfect and beautiful than to have two people come together where no fears, no insecurities, will ever be again. To be able to love and accept each other as you are. With Zach's help and his amazing personality and attitude, Sky starts to believe finally for the first time that she may be worthy of love and deserve it as well.As beautiful as the story was, it was not without a little angst and breath holding moments. There are some tragedies that would befall on them, but what i absolutely love,  and you very seldom in a story have this to happen, is they stuck together. Lets fight together, lets mourn together, stand together united as one, not in denial and in separate corners.  I love the mentality, we are a team and we will face it as a team.  Also, worth a mention, are the supporting characters in the story.  They are funny, quick witted, supportive, and honest. I absolutely love Ricky.  He was a welcome surprise to the story. I feel like he really came to love himself as well and accept his desires. He is even going to be expanding his horizons a little to embrace himself. When you buy the book you will see what I mean. "Lavender and Lace" has taken on new meaning and I am still smiling. The vision the author describes is something I wish I could see for real. Might have to google lolI highly recommend clicking over to Amazon and hitting "1 click to buy" and you also can experience the beauty of Transgressions. I am a straight female with children, married forever feels like sometimes and I am ashamed to say that I have never considered a person being Transgender. I know there are, I am not that naive, but its just not something I ever think about.  That mentality has changed with this book and I would like to thank Mr. Fenraven for bringing it to the forefront of our minds and hearts. I am not prejudice towards anyone and I was taught and have always believed each person is special in their own way and however they are in their own skin is fine with me, I just forgot that its not always black or white, straight or gay. After reading Transgressions, I will not forget that people are more complex and thats ok. I was always told there was someone out there for each person, you just had to find it. What better example of that than with Sky and Zach. Thank you for sharing your writing talent with us and opening our minds along the way.