Not Your Pucking Girl
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Awful all around.
Well, where do I start. Let's just say, my poor book journal is now disgraced with a lot of angry all caps sentences because more often than not I was so mad reading this book. First of all, the book's general language is incredibly sexist, not to mention misogynistic. So much so that it almost felt confrontational. Adult women are referred to as "chicks", "girls" or, so classy, "bitches". That's not only incredibly offensive, but also getting old fast. Second of all, the plot was meh. Some parts of the plot (the sister's death) felt like plot devices to make the page count or to rile up some last ditch effort emotions within the reader. At some point, I only wanted this book to end. I do not think I will continue reading this series and that is something that never happens. I do not care one bit about the characters, their fate or their emotions since all of both story and plot felt surface level. Third of all, Miller is a walking, talking red flag. Danielle has an abusive ex-boyfriend that used emotional, verbal and physical abuse to control her and his best idea is so "push her against a wall because it makes him horny"???? Generally speaking, their relationship felt purely physical with only small escapades to deeper, more emotional intimacy, but those were kept incredibly short and offensively shallow. Not to mention patriarchally coded. Just like every interaction/relationship/representation of reality in this book. I can't even remember whether or not this book passes the Bechdel Test, and this is something that's pretty easy to manage and yet A LOT of patriarchal books fail to manage. Books are not least of all and among other things meant as a trial run for reality where you learn from "other people's mistakes" and get to experience situations safely, so you can see what is possible for you. For example, coping with situations happening to the characters in a HEALTHY way. There was nothing healthy or non-discriminating about this book and I am severly put out. Not that anybody cares, but this book only taught me that I am pretty good identifying all the various types of sexism under the sun. That makes me sad because I think books are meant to show a better world and not the current sitution. That was dire. One thing was completely riciculous though! The fact that said ex was charged and is actually gonna be sent to prison is laughable. That almost never happens in real life. In fact, the amount of traumatic life events happening in this book (and their subsequent brush off) felt like the author had a list of boxes she wanted to tick. It did not have much impact, was probably in there for the shock factor and left basically no mark on the characters. Well, "the girls" were too busy cheering on mediocre white men and made it their entire personality. That and unnecessary amounts of smut that had no impact whatsoever and did not add to the story in the slightest. Again, incredibly shallow. Now I need to go read something profound since this book was successfull in melting down all my brain cells.
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Awful all around.
Well, where do I start. Let's just say, my poor book journal is now disgraced with a lot of angry all caps sentences because more often than not I was so mad reading this book. First of all, the book's general language is incredibly sexist, not to mention misogynistic. So much so that it almost felt confrontational. Adult women are referred to as "chicks", "girls" or, so classy, "bitches". That's not only incredibly offensive, but also getting old fast. Second of all, the plot was meh. Some parts of the plot (the sister's death) felt like plot devices to make the page count or to rile up some last ditch effort emotions within the reader. At some point, I only wanted this book to end. I do not think I will continue reading this series and that is something that never happens. I do not care one bit about the characters, their fate or their emotions since all of both story and plot felt surface level. Third of all, Miller is a walking, talking red flag. Danielle has an abusive ex-boyfriend that used emotional, verbal and physical abuse to control her and his best idea is so "push her against a wall because it makes him horny"???? Generally speaking, their relationship felt purely physical with only small escapades to deeper, more emotional intimacy, but those were kept incredibly short and offensively shallow. Not to mention patriarchally coded. Just like every interaction/relationship/representation of reality in this book. I can't even remember whether or not this book passes the Bechdel Test, and this is something that's pretty easy to manage and yet A LOT of patriarchal books fail to manage. Books are not least of all and among other things meant as a trial run for reality where you learn from "other people's mistakes" and get to experience situations safely, so you can see what is possible for you. For example, coping with situations happening to the characters in a HEALTHY way. There was nothing healthy or non-discriminating about this book and I am severly put out. Not that anybody cares, but this book only taught me that I am pretty good identifying all the various types of sexism under the sun. That makes me sad because I think books are meant to show a better world and not the current sitution. That was dire. One thing was completely riciculous though! The fact that said ex was charged and is actually gonna be sent to prison is laughable. That almost never happens in real life. In fact, the amount of traumatic life events happening in this book (and their subsequent brush off) felt like the author had a list of boxes she wanted to tick. It did not have much impact, was probably in there for the shock factor and left basically no mark on the characters. Well, "the girls" were too busy cheering on mediocre white men and made it their entire personality. That and unnecessary amounts of smut that had no impact whatsoever and did not add to the story in the slightest. Again, incredibly shallow. Now I need to go read something profound since this book was successfull in melting down all my brain cells.