A review by sophiguana
Most People by Michael Leannah

1.0

Ew I'm sick of people like this author pretending they have any wisdom to share about the world when they make horrible vapid bullshit like this. This book is from 2017 and it was out of touch before the first cockroaches began crawling around on earth. It paints the world so black-n-white yet also so romanticized. It's such a sheltered, pretentious, othering, divisive perspective and it is painful: "Most people like rainbows, butterflies, and sunshine. That is good. Those people are good. But some people are bad...because they do bad things like saying cuss words and stealing. THOSE people are like moldy bananas. But if you sprinkle them with heart-shaped glitter unicorn confetti they might sometimes say sorry and change." What? This doesn't teach empathy, this doesn't teach anything!! It's insulting. It's like a superhero good vs evil fantasy world except nobody's wearing a costume or has powers. The world is way more complex than how Michael Leannah clearly believes. How can you sit here and tell me people who are having a bad day have something wrong with them, and need to be fixed immediately, because they're ruining the damn always rainbows and sunshine fantasy. No one has to be happy all the time! There's nothing wrong with feeling down. Nobody deserves to be judged so harshly for one isolated behavior. Nobody needs this book. Throw it in the trash, it belongs festering in a pile of raccoon doo. We are human beings not human doings.