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A review by ashar_reads
The Troubleseeker by Alan Lessik
Did not finish book.
1.0
Dnf
CW:SA
This book immediately glorifies SA and having sex with underage boys as just a normal gay thing by having the adult narrator describe the main character's childhood and teenage body in sexual ways, specifying that he found him extremely attractive. There is then a romance between the main character and a German soldier, who is an adult as well, that is described in an extremely romanticized way. This is such a harmful troupe. The author then describes a graphic rape, enforcing another harmful troupe of queer characters experiencing trauma, including the graphic details of that trauma, for being queer in almost every narrative about us. I assume the author is queer but that does not justify writing about a child in this way. These things happen but they are not normal and they are not ok and they are certainly not romantic.
CW:SA
This book immediately glorifies SA and having sex with underage boys as just a normal gay thing by having the adult narrator describe the main character's childhood and teenage body in sexual ways, specifying that he found him extremely attractive. There is then a romance between the main character and a German soldier, who is an adult as well, that is described in an extremely romanticized way. This is such a harmful troupe. The author then describes a graphic rape, enforcing another harmful troupe of queer characters experiencing trauma, including the graphic details of that trauma, for being queer in almost every narrative about us. I assume the author is queer but that does not justify writing about a child in this way. These things happen but they are not normal and they are not ok and they are certainly not romantic.