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A review by jessiek04
Untamed by A.G. Howard
3.0
Note: I am not a teenager, so please consider this review/rating accordingly.
CW: Sexual harassment, sexual assault, unhealthy romantic relationship representation (Morpheus & Alyssa - their relationship should not be held up as anything healthy that anyone should hope to attain), and fatphobia/fatmisia in the form of a bad character being unnecessarily fat (Yes, please have diverse characters in your stories, but do not make the only marginalized character in your story the bad guy. Just... don't.)
"The Boy in the Web" really got to me in a bad way. It was just unnecessarily graphic and othering toward fat people; it's the reason for most of the content warnings above. Not a fan of that story.
I just feel, after listening to all the books in this series, that teens should be very careful about reading it. It's a really fun and interesting series, don't get me wrong. However, the portrayal of Alyssa and Morpheus' relationship (and Morpheus in general) is just rather dangerous. I know, they're netherlings, and they're supposed to be manipulative, cunning, and "mad," but I still worry about teens reading this series and getting a warped idea of what's okay to expect in a romantic relationship. Maybe I'm being anxious over nothing, but I just felt like I should make note of the issues I perceived.
CW: Sexual harassment, sexual assault, unhealthy romantic relationship representation (Morpheus & Alyssa - their relationship should not be held up as anything healthy that anyone should hope to attain), and fatphobia/fatmisia in the form of a bad character being unnecessarily fat (Yes, please have diverse characters in your stories, but do not make the only marginalized character in your story the bad guy. Just... don't.)
"The Boy in the Web" really got to me in a bad way. It was just unnecessarily graphic and othering toward fat people; it's the reason for most of the content warnings above. Not a fan of that story.
I just feel, after listening to all the books in this series, that teens should be very careful about reading it. It's a really fun and interesting series, don't get me wrong. However, the portrayal of Alyssa and Morpheus' relationship (and Morpheus in general) is just rather dangerous. I know, they're netherlings, and they're supposed to be manipulative, cunning, and "mad," but I still worry about teens reading this series and getting a warped idea of what's okay to expect in a romantic relationship. Maybe I'm being anxious over nothing, but I just felt like I should make note of the issues I perceived.