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A review by angelinoo
Savage Species by Jonathan Janz
1.0
So many of these horror books scream a white man wrote this, and this is no exception. I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator was OK however, his voice for the character Colleen sounded Ambien induced and weird. As for the story. Many of these characters are problematic and unlikable. There is Jesse , Emma, and Colleen. These three work at a newspaper and are researching a story. Jesse is portrayed as a creepy, nasty and cell. Who’s obsessively into Emma. The book portrays it as a crush so it’s completely completely unaware. How unsettling and gross this. Colleen is an asshole and a racist piece of shit but it’s never addressed. Another problem. Emma is flat with not much going on because there’s no character development going on with this book.
And now for the racism. This apparently takes place on Algonquin land. And the one native character named Mr. Red Oak is written as a pervert and a savage. Like Wtf? This continuously makes advances at Emma who is a white girl. The entire scene is wild and insane. Why would the author do this? Especially knowing what native Americans have to put up with from white people; being labeled savages, etc. for no good reason when white people were the real threat. Hello colonialism! At one point, Mr. Red Oak uses the bathroom in front of all of them. Why would you do that? Who does that? The author writing Mr. Red Oak’s character this way was a fucking choice and a racist one. Leave black and brown people out of your fucking stories because you have no idea how to write them. Thank you.
There’s also casual fat shaming, and anti-fatness. But the way things are going with this damn story it is no surprise.
The way women are described and portrayed in this book is misogynistic, basic and superfluous.
There’s a storyline between a man named Eric (who is trash) and his wife, Charlie. Eric is an abusive twat and Charlie can’t leave because she’s feels trapped but the way it’s written, it always falls in favor of the husband, and again you can tell a man wrote this trash.
And now for the racism. This apparently takes place on Algonquin land. And the one native character named Mr. Red Oak is written as a pervert and a savage. Like Wtf? This continuously makes advances at Emma who is a white girl. The entire scene is wild and insane. Why would the author do this? Especially knowing what native Americans have to put up with from white people; being labeled savages, etc. for no good reason when white people were the real threat. Hello colonialism! At one point, Mr. Red Oak uses the bathroom in front of all of them. Why would you do that? Who does that? The author writing Mr. Red Oak’s character this way was a fucking choice and a racist one. Leave black and brown people out of your fucking stories because you have no idea how to write them. Thank you.
There’s also casual fat shaming, and anti-fatness. But the way things are going with this damn story it is no surprise.
The way women are described and portrayed in this book is misogynistic, basic and superfluous.
There’s a storyline between a man named Eric (who is trash) and his wife, Charlie. Eric is an abusive twat and Charlie can’t leave because she’s feels trapped but the way it’s written, it always falls in favor of the husband, and again you can tell a man wrote this trash.