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Ordinary Love
Marie Rutkoski
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I was hesitant to read this because of the low reviews but I ate this upppppp.
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Craig DiLouie
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We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
Nemonte Nenquimo
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild
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DNF @ 50%
I want to start by saying that I was very excited by the concept of this book, an all female true crime bookclub saving their town from the clutches of a vampire that’s moved in? Sold! And that’s where the excitement ended.
I read My Best Friends Exorcism by the same other and enjoyed it. The coming of age elements really worked for that story and I was invested in those girls lives. However, reading this was a vastly different experience. I’ll start by saying that this book had a lot of blatant sexism and racism in it which is not what ruined the book for me. For lack of a better term this authors writing really gave me the ick with how he portrayed the women and the sexist men in their lives.
What it comes down to is that if an author insists on writing about bigotries they can and never will personally experience then they must do so with respect and tack and not just for shock value. This felt more like a cheap trick to try to enrage the reader with little payoff. The female characters were extremely flat and one dimensional and the author relied so much on the reader just being mad about how rude and dismissive the men were that actual character development was thrown to the wayside.
I had high hopes for this book because I’ve heard so many good things about it but I could not look past the TERRIBLE representations of the female characters. I realize I’m supposed to be mad about the discrimination and how “it’s the whole point” but relying on male characters abusing and dismissing women/POC when you yourself are a white man is gross and honestly just lazy writing. All in all it was a huge disappointment and perhaps the author should start writing male characters because writing women is clearly not his forte.
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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix
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Craig DiLouie
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The Glutton
A.K. Blakemore