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Historically Inaccurate
by Shay Bravo
DID NOT FINISH
Historically Inaccurate has themes of immigration, deportation, and family separation which are incredibly important topics. There is Latina representation as well as LGBTQ+ so I was excited for this diverse read. Unfortunately, I was left disappointed mostly because of the writing as well as with Sol. Sol, the main character, has a million internal extensive monologues after anything that happens so much that she will just go on and on about her laptop being broken or that she wants a muffin, just to name some examples. It doesn’t really add to the story. The pacing is slow and quite repetitive so I found myself skimming A LOT. There are also a ton of typos so hopefully that will be fixed before publication.
I admire the fact that the author made diverse characters but they didn’t come off as well rounded because it wasn’t really blatant. For example, there is a transgender woman character and it’s never really mentioned, just in passing by misgendering. This misgendering scene really didn’t sit right with me. There are a couple of other scenes that I felt were forced including the romance which I found unnecessary. I did like that there was openness about gender and sexuality and that the characters were freely discussing it without judgement HOWEVER THE MISGENDERING HAPPENED MORE THAN ONCE WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS ON PURPOSE AND I HATED THAT.
Another random thing that bugged me was that the history club in no way resembles a history club even remotely. They just try to do crazy things without getting caught and they’re supposed to be in college, which I found hard to believe. On top of that, Ethan, a black character expressed concern with being caught by the police during these "history club excursions" and possibly killed because he is black but the main character waved it off completely, expressing nothing. Actually, that pissed me off a lot and rubbed me the wrong way.
With that being said, at least the cover is nice.
Thank you to Netgalley and to the publisher for sending me an arc.
I admire the fact that the author made diverse characters but they didn’t come off as well rounded because it wasn’t really blatant. For example, there is a transgender woman character and it’s never really mentioned, just in passing by misgendering. This misgendering scene really didn’t sit right with me. There are a couple of other scenes that I felt were forced including the romance which I found unnecessary. I did like that there was openness about gender and sexuality and that the characters were freely discussing it without judgement HOWEVER THE MISGENDERING HAPPENED MORE THAN ONCE WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS ON PURPOSE AND I HATED THAT.
Another random thing that bugged me was that the history club in no way resembles a history club even remotely. They just try to do crazy things without getting caught and they’re supposed to be in college, which I found hard to believe. On top of that, Ethan, a black character expressed concern with being caught by the police during these "history club excursions" and possibly killed because he is black but the main character waved it off completely, expressing nothing. Actually, that pissed me off a lot and rubbed me the wrong way.
With that being said, at least the cover is nice.
Thank you to Netgalley and to the publisher for sending me an arc.