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A review by hobbithopeful
Three Drops of Blood by Gretchen McNeil
Did not finish book. Stopped at 29%.
DNF around 100 pages: Boring, Stereotypical, Don't even get me started on the racial issues, author's personal hang-ups effect characters
To even try to market this book as similar to AGGGTM is an insult to the series.
I don't even know what the plot was supposed to be.
The main character has some SERIOUS inner misogyny going on, or this is the author's personal views affecting the character. (Also felt like the mc was suffering from Mary Sueism)
The author seems to have had some really bad experiences with certain people and parts of this book felt more like it was for a revenge story against her past bullies.
The way race was handled in this just straight up gave me the ick. It was so abundantly clear that it was a white author too. (iykyk)
Don't even get me started on Kate's inner monologue about her privilege, and random thoughts regarding race.
I also then proceeded to look into the author and some of her books, and saw she wrote a book starring a Filipino character. That really explained a lot for me.
I also feel like getting out my soap box about the fact that just saying a character is such and such race, doesn't mean they are going to read that way. (And if you took out the race part would you even be able to tell?)
Seriously y'all. Don't read this. Save yourself.
To even try to market this book as similar to AGGGTM is an insult to the series.
I don't even know what the plot was supposed to be.
The main character has some SERIOUS inner misogyny going on, or this is the author's personal views affecting the character. (Also felt like the mc was suffering from Mary Sueism)
The author seems to have had some really bad experiences with certain people and parts of this book felt more like it was for a revenge story against her past bullies.
The way race was handled in this just straight up gave me the ick. It was so abundantly clear that it was a white author too. (iykyk)
Don't even get me started on Kate's inner monologue about her privilege, and random thoughts regarding race.
I also then proceeded to look into the author and some of her books, and saw she wrote a book starring a Filipino character. That really explained a lot for me.
I also feel like getting out my soap box about the fact that just saying a character is such and such race, doesn't mean they are going to read that way. (And if you took out the race part would you even be able to tell?)
Seriously y'all. Don't read this. Save yourself.