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A review by enteka
Ministry of Moral Panic by Amanda Lee Koe
2.5
Not really a good rating because there were some stories I did like: Alice (I thought this was the standout, really, my girl Jenny was spitting facts and there was some semblance of complexity there... oh, and also, peeing! (What's with this, why the sudden inclusion of this? For the panic, I suppose.)) and Flamingo Valley.
Overall the tone of the narration is very detached, so much that the bluntness the descriptions come across as crude and too artificial, too forced, to me, I think. I'm sure there's supposed to be some uncomfortable truth behind these stories, but it just feels like a forced vomiting, aside from the two stories I mentioned above.
In particular I felt there were missed opportunities for Maria Hertogh, Laundromat, and Caldecott Hill. It's also possible that I'm just not reading deeply enough into the stories so I miss the point of the crudeness. I felt concerned, but mostly it was "Oh vagina, huh. Tits? Eh, okay." at some points but there was nothing strange about the morality of it. The tone paints it somehow black-and-white to me... That's strange, I think.
And this is strange to say but. It's... some of the stories are really.... caricatures of straight people. But instead of highlighting their features I felt their humanity was dimmed instead.
Overall the tone of the narration is very detached, so much that the bluntness the descriptions come across as crude and too artificial, too forced, to me, I think. I'm sure there's supposed to be some uncomfortable truth behind these stories, but it just feels like a forced vomiting, aside from the two stories I mentioned above.
In particular I felt there were missed opportunities for Maria Hertogh, Laundromat, and Caldecott Hill. It's also possible that I'm just not reading deeply enough into the stories so I miss the point of the crudeness. I felt concerned, but mostly it was "Oh vagina, huh. Tits? Eh, okay." at some points but there was nothing strange about the morality of it. The tone paints it somehow black-and-white to me... That's strange, I think.
And this is strange to say but. It's... some of the stories are really.... caricatures of straight people. But instead of highlighting their features I felt their humanity was dimmed instead.