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madarauchiha's review
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
0.25
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Long tedious, disappointed at the autistic kid being magical. There is one character of color, a japanese woman, and she is also magical. So you got the ableist magical(?) savant trope and the racist magical native trope.
This book should have been a novella or short story. i would feel less rage at having my time wasted with this.
by the way, the ending? Abrupt, nonsensical, stupid, out of no where. Ok so basically, full spoilers, turns out the autistic boymurdered his best friend, and ever since then he had been drawing the murdered boy every single day in order to keep him alive. So the mother, learning that the monsters were from his magical drawings, and the dead boy is also magical drawing, orders her son to keep drawing the boy. Then the book ends. Because???? No clue why??
The horror was non existent. The monster(s?) were sparse and occasional. The monster was a very basicnaked man crawling around . Yes really, that's the monster. There's some unreality elements but they happen off screen and could easily be chalked up to boys playing games, or medical illness.
There's a implication of ghosts but that's all there is to it.
There is no tension, just yawning boredom as we're ferried from one place to another, watching the daily bland boring life of a married cishet couple.
The magic system isn't really explained much. There's no particular basis for it. It is confirmed, comes out of no where, and that's it.
▪ “I don’t mean Jip. I mean, how long have you been seeing this priest and this voodoo woman? She gives me the creeps.”
major racism not just racist magical poc trope. Voodoo woman referring to a Japanese woman, who is nonblack and most likely not a practitioner of Vodou, a closed African religion.
Why did the author nickname the boy character Jip? That sounds way too much like g*p, an anti Rromani slur. Yeah this is a stretch I don't give a shit.
PS if you wanna read Autism In Horror that's done well and right and genuinely creepy, go check out Experimental Film by Gemma Files. It deals with ableism in past and present society, eugenics, family bonds, and a whole lot of folk horror. Also the main character is a woman too, not the usualy clueless cishet man bumbling a la scooby doo.
major ableism, animal death, blood, body horror, death, child death, dogs, gore, infidelity, police, pregnancy, sexual content, stillbirth, victim blaming
medium blood, child death, death, drowning, murder, psychosis?, ship wrecks, violence
minor alcohol, asperger mention, body horror, drowning, injuries, parent death, religion catholic, wars
Long tedious, disappointed at the autistic kid being magical. There is one character of color, a japanese woman, and she is also magical. So you got the ableist magical(?) savant trope and the racist magical native trope.
This book should have been a novella or short story. i would feel less rage at having my time wasted with this.
by the way, the ending? Abrupt, nonsensical, stupid, out of no where. Ok so basically, full spoilers, turns out the autistic boy
The horror was non existent. The monster(s?) were sparse and occasional. The monster was a very basic
There's a implication of ghosts but that's all there is to it.
There is no tension, just yawning boredom as we're ferried from one place to another, watching the daily bland boring life of a married cishet couple.
The magic system isn't really explained much. There's no particular basis for it. It is confirmed, comes out of no where, and that's it.
▪ “I don’t mean Jip. I mean, how long have you been seeing this priest and this voodoo woman? She gives me the creeps.”
major racism not just racist magical poc trope. Voodoo woman referring to a Japanese woman, who is nonblack and most likely not a practitioner of Vodou, a closed African religion.
Why did the author nickname the boy character Jip? That sounds way too much like g*p, an anti Rromani slur. Yeah this is a stretch I don't give a shit.
PS if you wanna read Autism In Horror that's done well and right and genuinely creepy, go check out Experimental Film by Gemma Files. It deals with ableism in past and present society, eugenics, family bonds, and a whole lot of folk horror. Also the main character is a woman too, not the usualy clueless cishet man bumbling a la scooby doo.
major ableism, animal death, blood, body horror, death, child death, dogs, gore, infidelity, police, pregnancy, sexual content, stillbirth, victim blaming
medium blood, child death, death, drowning, murder, psychosis?, ship wrecks, violence
minor alcohol, asperger mention, body horror, drowning, injuries, parent death, religion catholic, wars
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Infidelity, Death, Gore, Pregnancy, Child death, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Ableism, Animal death, and Body horror
Moderate: Death, Blood, Murder, Child death, and Violence
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Body horror, Death of parent, and War
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