ashleycheree 's review for:

The Listeners by Jordan Tannahill

1.0

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I'm just tired of male authors using feminist tropes to explain the hardships people who identify as women face on a day-to-day basis. It became harder and harder to sympathize with the group of "hummers" as the members all became closer to caricatures, and the conversations with the daughter were painful (the conversations where Ashley uses slurs against the queer community only to defend herself by digging an even deeper hole comes to mind). These aspects weren't necessary to the plot, and ultimately only served to suggest that the character's alienation was their own doing rather than focusing on the more interesting aspect of society turning on them.