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A review by woolfinbooks
We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
Don’t trust anyone calling this extreme horror. It’s about people who work in an office where they watch videos posted online and determine if they need to be taken down or not. Racism, Nazism, Homophobia, death, murder, assault, suicide, etc. can still be allowed depending on the context. You get some insight into the rules and some stories about what happens in the videos, but most are briefly discussed with light to mild descriptions. The premise sounds interesting, but the whole book is shit.
The last 35 minutes (audiobook) has barely challenged antisemitism, Holocaust denial, racism, and homophobia. Sigrid acted as if she was being emotionally abused because Kayleigh said Holocaust denial is stupid. I guess I get what the author was trying to do by showing how online desensitization has changed them in the real world, but it was handled poorly and written fucking terribly. I'm not sure if the author or translator are to blame for that.
Sex addiction and its links to trauma were mentioned but never discussed. Coercion was mentioned but never discussed. It's like the author was stating what point they wanted to make and thinking that was enough. "Ahh isn't it bad she masturbated right next to her wife after she was denied sex?" Yes... but why isn't the character looking further into that? Why is it brushed aside like a fun little tidbit about their relationship?
Kayleigh was so use to Nazism that she was willing and begging Sigrid to get back together. That… was a choice the author made. The whole book built up to this big epic moment that never happened. Finding out that Sigrid was only pretending to be a Holocaust denier so Kayleigh would break up with her… that was meant to be the big twist? This book could have easily been another 200 pages and still not have had enough time to turn all of its crumbs into a meal.
And, of course, the white author trying to be edgy and controversial used racial slurs... How revolutionary.
I think whatever insufferable character said it best as far as I’m concerned it wasn’t that too much happened, if anything too little
Content / Trigger Warnings
animal cruelty
antisemitism
assault
coercion
homophobia
misogyny
nazism
racial slurs
racism
sex
suicide
The last 35 minutes (audiobook) has barely challenged antisemitism, Holocaust denial, racism, and homophobia. Sigrid acted as if she was being emotionally abused because Kayleigh said Holocaust denial is stupid. I guess I get what the author was trying to do by showing how online desensitization has changed them in the real world, but it was handled poorly and written fucking terribly. I'm not sure if the author or translator are to blame for that.
Sex addiction and its links to trauma were mentioned but never discussed. Coercion was mentioned but never discussed. It's like the author was stating what point they wanted to make and thinking that was enough. "Ahh isn't it bad she masturbated right next to her wife after she was denied sex?" Yes... but why isn't the character looking further into that? Why is it brushed aside like a fun little tidbit about their relationship?
Kayleigh was so use to Nazism that she was willing and begging Sigrid to get back together. That… was a choice the author made. The whole book built up to this big epic moment that never happened. Finding out that Sigrid was only pretending to be a Holocaust denier so Kayleigh would break up with her… that was meant to be the big twist? This book could have easily been another 200 pages and still not have had enough time to turn all of its crumbs into a meal.
And, of course, the white author trying to be edgy and controversial used racial slurs... How revolutionary.
I think whatever insufferable character said it best as far as I’m concerned it wasn’t that too much happened, if anything too little
Content / Trigger Warnings
animal cruelty
antisemitism
assault
coercion
homophobia
misogyny
nazism
racial slurs
racism
sex
suicide