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madarauchiha's review
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
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
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The first red flag was someone who enjoyed peter 'misogyny is great!' clines and dan '911 broke my brain so now i'm a huge islamophobe' simmons, and the second red flag was the endorsment from stephen 'racist as fuck' king.
Jsesus christ. Of all the reviews for this, why are there so few people mentioning how unbelieveably racist this is?
Odessa Red is the one prominent Black character. There are two others, her daughter [deceased] and her husband. Odessa speaks in broken english, the author's attempt at AAVE. She is a servant and, were this back in the 1800s, would have been a House Slave. She is 'content' in her role as servant and is shown uncomfortable with the liberal attempts to integrate her into the white family as a member rather than servant. I can understand this as the second a Black person or PoC in the deep south gets too 'out of line' with the deeply racist US South society bad, violent things start happening.
note yes this happens everywhere, I won't say this is exclusive to the US South at all.
Odessa is also a Magical N*gro. She performs magic, so to speak, in an attempt to protect the family. The family, not just the 13 yo child, also berate and harangue her for explanations of the supernatural shit happening in the house.
Odessa's arc ends with her brutal off screen death, wherein the 13 yo white girl cannibalizes her eyes in order to gain Odessa's magical eye sight.
Yes that's right, the rich white girl from a rich white familyeats the poor Black woman's body. And then leaves her body there to rot. Odessa gets no respect even in death.
Her husband, mr Red, is a mooch, a drunk, a low class tactless jobless stereotype of a Black man. The one time he's shown on screen is begging for money frm a rich white man. Neither he nor Odessa get any depth.
Her daughter appears onceas a monster to scare the rich white girl.
At this point I don't give a shit about the writing. It's southern gothic, haunted house, supernatural shit happens and there's no damn reason for it. It's never explored either. So there you have it. Doo doo kaka dog shit of a book.
note. the word n*gro is used one time.
minor pregnancy, drug abuse, ableism towards people who use drugs, child death, drowning, physical abuse, child abuse, murder, sexual content, xenophobia, death, stillbirth, cancer,
medium animal death, gore, blood, cannibalism, alcohol, infidelity, car crash, sinophobia, racism, child death,
major gore, blood,death, murder, fatphobia context being fat equal bad evil monster horror trope, arson, fire, bone fractures, injuries, body horror, blood, antiblack racism context being us south post civil war society, addiction ,alcoholism, toxic relationships,
Here's some examples of antiblack racism.
▪ “When I’m dead, you make sure that Johnny Red don’t get a folded dollar of that money!”“I promise,” said Dauphin, but he was already scheming charity—trying to think of how he could take care of no-good Johnny Red in the unlikely case that that alcoholic loafer survived his common-law wife.
Dauphin is the rich white man who employs Odessa Red, wife to Johnny Red.
▪ India had always thought of herself as politically liberal—as Luker was—and with that liberalism came a discomfort with servants. Other appurtenances of the rich didn’t bother her, and she had often benefited from the largesse of some of Luker’s friends: weekends in large houses, rides in limousines and private planes, Beluga and Dom Perignon, private screenings and empty beaches—and had enjoyed them all without guilt. But servants walked and talked and had feelings and yet weren’t equal, and India thought that to deal with them was a practical impossibility. She asked nothing of Odessa, and would have prepared all her own food rather than be waited on by the black woman—except that Odessa insisted that she have the kitchen entirely to herself. India could not use the kitchen at the McCray house, for there the gas and the refrigerator had not even been turned on.
India is 13 btw.
The first red flag was someone who enjoyed peter 'misogyny is great!' clines and dan '911 broke my brain so now i'm a huge islamophobe' simmons, and the second red flag was the endorsment from stephen 'racist as fuck' king.
Jsesus christ. Of all the reviews for this, why are there so few people mentioning how unbelieveably racist this is?
Odessa Red is the one prominent Black character. There are two others, her daughter [deceased] and her husband. Odessa speaks in broken english, the author's attempt at AAVE. She is a servant and, were this back in the 1800s, would have been a House Slave. She is 'content' in her role as servant and is shown uncomfortable with the liberal attempts to integrate her into the white family as a member rather than servant. I can understand this as the second a Black person or PoC in the deep south gets too 'out of line' with the deeply racist US South society bad, violent things start happening.
note yes this happens everywhere, I won't say this is exclusive to the US South at all.
Odessa is also a Magical N*gro. She performs magic, so to speak, in an attempt to protect the family. The family, not just the 13 yo child, also berate and harangue her for explanations of the supernatural shit happening in the house.
Odessa's arc ends with her
Yes that's right, the rich white girl from a rich white family
Her husband, mr Red, is a mooch, a drunk, a low class tactless jobless stereotype of a Black man. The one time he's shown on screen is
Her daughter appears once
At this point I don't give a shit about the writing. It's southern gothic, haunted house, supernatural shit happens and there's no damn reason for it. It's never explored either. So there you have it. Doo doo kaka dog shit of a book.
note. the word n*gro is used one time.
minor pregnancy, drug abuse, ableism towards people who use drugs, child death, drowning, physical abuse, child abuse, murder, sexual content, xenophobia, death, stillbirth, cancer,
medium animal death, gore, blood, cannibalism, alcohol, infidelity, car crash, sinophobia, racism, child death,
major gore, blood,death, murder, fatphobia context being fat equal bad evil monster horror trope, arson, fire, bone fractures, injuries, body horror, blood, antiblack racism context being us south post civil war society, addiction ,alcoholism, toxic relationships,
Here's some examples of antiblack racism.
Dauphin is the rich white man who employs Odessa Red, wife to Johnny Red.
India is 13 btw.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Child death, Gore, and Racism
Minor: Animal death, Murder, Ableism, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Xenophobia
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