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A review by dylanisreviewing
If You Go Down to the Woods by Seth C. Adams
1.0
1 star.
The racial and homophobic slurs, and terrible representation towards a black and a fat character, have made me hate it.
This book takes place in the 70s/80s, so these types or wordings were normalized back then, but this is a 2018 release. It's understandable wanting to be realistic, but you can write a historical piece without the CONSTANT use of slurs and microagressions. STRANGER THINGS and IT (the movie, the book was about as offensive as this, but they had the brains to use other wordings BECAUSE ITS 2018) did it (which is what this book is CONSTANTLY being compared to, which makes sense because this is IT, but done worse), so why couldn't they with this book?
Thank you to Netgalley for sending this to me for review, but I will never recommend this book to a single soul.
The racial and homophobic slurs, and terrible representation towards a black and a fat character, have made me hate it.
This book takes place in the 70s/80s, so these types or wordings were normalized back then, but this is a 2018 release. It's understandable wanting to be realistic, but you can write a historical piece without the CONSTANT use of slurs and microagressions. STRANGER THINGS and IT (the movie, the book was about as offensive as this, but they had the brains to use other wordings BECAUSE ITS 2018) did it (which is what this book is CONSTANTLY being compared to, which makes sense because this is IT, but done worse), so why couldn't they with this book?
Thank you to Netgalley for sending this to me for review, but I will never recommend this book to a single soul.