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bookhero6 's review for:
Double Fudge Brownie Murder
by Joanne Fluke
So there's this scene in the book where Hannah and her sister Michelle go to a dive bar. They ask the waitress to open their bottled beers at the table. The waitress says basically, "of course, especially the way the (male) bartender is looking at you." Then goes on the make a crack that he's likely to drug and rape them.
AS IF THIS IS TOTALLY NORMAL.
This is supposed to be a cozy mystery. All light and fluff and dead bodies with recipes. But there rape culture is, alive and well. Don't go to the dive bar, or the bartender will drug and rape you. Because that's what bartenders do. And really, it's your fault anyway, for going to a dive bar.
The scene then goes on to condemn the female patrons of this bar who go home with asshole men who wait til last call to by them a drink because they're cheap (the men). But that's just what men do?!
The rest of the book was alright, the recipes look yummy. But that whole scene had my blood boiling and had me nearly throwing the book across the room.
I just can't.
AS IF THIS IS TOTALLY NORMAL.
This is supposed to be a cozy mystery. All light and fluff and dead bodies with recipes. But there rape culture is, alive and well. Don't go to the dive bar, or the bartender will drug and rape you. Because that's what bartenders do. And really, it's your fault anyway, for going to a dive bar.
The scene then goes on to condemn the female patrons of this bar who go home with asshole men who wait til last call to by them a drink because they're cheap (the men). But that's just what men do?!
The rest of the book was alright, the recipes look yummy. But that whole scene had my blood boiling and had me nearly throwing the book across the room.
I just can't.