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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It read a little 'teenage angst' to me, but with a ton of sex added in.
The first two thirds of the book follows Queenie as she makes one bad choice after another. The last part uncovers the reasons for why she acts as she does, but by that point, I was bored of the repetitive behaviours and didn't much care.
I don't have too much more to say about it. Not sure if it's a 3* but I didn't dislike it so 2* seemed harsh.
The first two thirds of the book follows Queenie as she makes one bad choice after another. The last part uncovers the reasons for why she acts as she does, but by that point, I was bored of the repetitive behaviours and didn't much care.
I don't have too much more to say about it. Not sure if it's a 3* but I didn't dislike it so 2* seemed harsh.
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
listened to on bbc sounds, the narration was so good, definitely recommend xx
I laughed out loud many times throughout the book. Was extremely frustrated by but grew to understand Queenie and truly just wanted the best for her. She reminds me of a friend that I'm going to send my copy to.
- Main character a fucking mess bro. Almost kind of pathetic how desperate for attention she is and a pushover. Everyone in her life, except that her two friends that stood by her, just bad for her. Like girl stand up! Have some respect for yourself.
- BLM felt very forced. Author should have more focused on British racism and micro aggressions. Love she actually went to therapy and ended with her staying single. Also felt like every interracial relationship she’s in are always men who fetishize her or microaggressive
- BLM felt very forced. Author should have more focused on British racism and micro aggressions. Love she actually went to therapy and ended with her staying single. Also felt like every interracial relationship she’s in are always men who fetishize her or microaggressive
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Queenie has some things in common with two books I have read and hated -- Are you There Bernadette and Fleischman is in Trouble. In all three books, the main characters go through varying degrees of manic/hysterical or otherwise mentally ill behavior because of stress and their unwise dependence on the men in their lives. They drop out of their normal routines and their friends and family are left to wonder what happened to them.
This is not my favorite plotline for a lot of reasons. I feel that it is unfair to women to portray as overly dependent on men and subject to hysterical outbreaks. Why do you think Americans are reluctant to vote for a woman for president? Because these are the stereotypes about successful women that we have all been fed -- one day they will wake up, flip out because of menopause or an unfaithful man or some other ridiculous reason and run screaming through the streets or book a cruise and disappear for months on end. I also thought Where Did You Go Bernadette and Fleischman Is In Trouble were sort of boring -- not nearly as cute as they thought they were. So when I saw similar plotlines developing in Queenie I was worried.
But Queenie is a far more restrained and carefully thought out book. You wonder how the titular Fleischman even got her great fancy job when she was so clearly always mentally unstable. Queenie does not have a fantastic job. She is the first in her family to graduate from college and she has a good job that she worked hard for. But she also has a dark backstory that causes her breakdown. Unlike Fleischman whose dark backstory leads to all kinds of ridiculous outrageous exhibitionist behavior, Queenie's breakdown is internal and completely believable. She acts out and is suspended from her job and turns to therapy to try to understand herself. Why didn't Fleischman ever think of therapy? She had the money after all.
The best parts of Queenie involve the examination of the role racism in England plays in demeaning and reducing black women. It was interesting to read this as Meghan Markle is making her personal Brexit. The racism was shocking and I really hope it was also exaggerated.
This is not my favorite plotline for a lot of reasons. I feel that it is unfair to women to portray as overly dependent on men and subject to hysterical outbreaks. Why do you think Americans are reluctant to vote for a woman for president? Because these are the stereotypes about successful women that we have all been fed -- one day they will wake up, flip out because of menopause or an unfaithful man or some other ridiculous reason and run screaming through the streets or book a cruise and disappear for months on end. I also thought Where Did You Go Bernadette and Fleischman Is In Trouble were sort of boring -- not nearly as cute as they thought they were. So when I saw similar plotlines developing in Queenie I was worried.
But Queenie is a far more restrained and carefully thought out book. You wonder how the titular Fleischman even got her great fancy job when she was so clearly always mentally unstable. Queenie does not have a fantastic job. She is the first in her family to graduate from college and she has a good job that she worked hard for. But she also has a dark backstory that causes her breakdown. Unlike Fleischman whose dark backstory leads to all kinds of ridiculous outrageous exhibitionist behavior, Queenie's breakdown is internal and completely believable. She acts out and is suspended from her job and turns to therapy to try to understand herself. Why didn't Fleischman ever think of therapy? She had the money after all.
The best parts of Queenie involve the examination of the role racism in England plays in demeaning and reducing black women. It was interesting to read this as Meghan Markle is making her personal Brexit. The racism was shocking and I really hope it was also exaggerated.
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes