A review by thelastcatbender
Brave Chef Brianna by Sam Sykes

2.0

This would have been a perfectly cute story but I had some big problems with some of the stuff that was clearly meant to parallel fights for civil rights/social justice. The BIPOC-coded Madame Cron has to fight against a privileged white woman coming from a rich family, in her own home town which is basically the last refuge for "monsters," and SHE is made out to be the villain?? Feels very "can't we all just get along? Racism is basically over that happened soooooo long ago" and it just feels extremely icky. I don't know what message they were trying to communicate but if this was not their intention it was executed very poorly.