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A review by cate_with_a_c
What We Left Behind by Robin Talley
4.0
I’m gonna piss people off with this but it needs to be said.
I have a problem with people who don’t want to learn things from reading.
I was in college in 2015, (the year this came out) Queer college kids and people figuring out their sexualities can be just as shitty as straight cisgender people. This is so realistic, I saw my peers in this book. Annoying as hell fellow queer folks making mistakes and being shitty to each other, and others doing their best.
Robin Talley is one of the most honest true to life authors that I have read and it is so fucking refreshing.
People do suck people are problematic. That’s literally part of the conflict in books. People have nuance, people get to be messy and make mistakes. And her books show that.
Unfortunately, there are a generation of readers that do not understand that characters can be just as flawed and based on real people.
Are there slurs and hateful people in the book? Yes because it’s realistic fiction. It is not an CW, TV show where people have a deep dark secret that justifies their actions. It is a book. You can learn something. Make an actual effort.
It is much more rewarding to learn and see a different perspective and someone going through the hard things versus a book where there is no conflict.
I have a problem with people who don’t want to learn things from reading.
I was in college in 2015, (the year this came out) Queer college kids and people figuring out their sexualities can be just as shitty as straight cisgender people. This is so realistic, I saw my peers in this book. Annoying as hell fellow queer folks making mistakes and being shitty to each other, and others doing their best.
Robin Talley is one of the most honest true to life authors that I have read and it is so fucking refreshing.
People do suck people are problematic. That’s literally part of the conflict in books. People have nuance, people get to be messy and make mistakes. And her books show that.
Unfortunately, there are a generation of readers that do not understand that characters can be just as flawed and based on real people.
Are there slurs and hateful people in the book? Yes because it’s realistic fiction. It is not an CW, TV show where people have a deep dark secret that justifies their actions. It is a book. You can learn something. Make an actual effort.
It is much more rewarding to learn and see a different perspective and someone going through the hard things versus a book where there is no conflict.