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molang_madrigal's review
I am so angry that I bought this book! Yet again publishing companies have made modern looking covers for books that are actually outdated Puritan garbage to get people to buy them! I bought this as a horse lover thinking it was a modern book, but it was actually published in 1946 and is set in 1842, so it’s pretending to be even older than it actually is too! I literally stopped after 3 pages because it opened with three “people” sitting in a carriage and sanctimoniously banged on about their lack of “morals” and other good characteristics before even introducing them! The first character was a 12 year old girl, who is described as irrevocably spoiled solely because the second character, her governess, never gives her corporal punishment which would improve her! And the third character was described as having no morals and no concern for any other beings, only caring about food. And this third character is a DOG. I don’t care that it’s an old book or whatever, what kind of jumped-up loser, now or then, has the time or concern to criticise pet dogs for not displaying any morals?!?! I have no time for anybody like that. After this I flicked forward a bit in the book and came across a passage where the girl was thinking about how she thought she would die if the village pastor ever told her off. I’m sorry, I am so sick of this ancient judgy literature being regurgitated to us and to kids again and again just because some people think it’s a “classic”. We need to move on and accept that things don’t stay great forever, and we need modern, non guilt-tripping stories for children. People somehow expect kids to understand the old attitudes and eras and know that it’s not now, but I really struggled with that as a kid and took lots of old books literally. I now immediately check the publication date every time I look at a book in a bookshop.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Religious bigotry
Moderate: Death of parent and Domestic abuse
Outdated moral attitudes towards children and pets
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