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Until Friday Night
by Abbi Glines
This has to be the most unintentionally hilarious book I've ever listened to. The book alternates between the female and male main characters, read by readers of the respective genders. Whenever there was a male character during the female character's chapter, the woman reading tried to lower her voice to sound like a guy, except every guy ended up sounding like adult Milhouse in those "futuristic" Simpsons episodes. So whenever these star football players had any dialogue in the scene, I could only imagine variations of Milhouse. Honestly the only reason I didn't turn this book off, because I hated it otherwise.
I should be less surprised at the amount of slut shaming in this book. I mean, we are living in a world where a presidential candidate calls women pigs and slobs. But seriously, this is a book written by a female author for a female audience, what the actual fuck? Not only that, every girl in this book who are not the female main character are catty, boy crazy, sex crazed, selfish, shallow assholes. They have no other character traits. They all hate each other and constantly fight over boys. Can we stop perpetuating this stupid stereotype in the 21st century? Or perhaps stop this lazy trope?
All the male characters feel that it's ok to use the girls and treat them abhorrently. The only time West, the main male character, feels slightly bad about how he treats girls is when he thinks that Maggie (main female) might find out about it. No remorse otherwise, because those sluts deserve it. What?
Maggie is not a character. Her only thoughts revolve around West. How much she loves him, how jealous she is that they're only friends, how she needs to be his everything. She has no personality whatsoever within her inner monologue. This is not a character. For goodness sake, she saw her dad shoot her mom and spent the last two years mute as a result. There should obviously be more there. She sees herself as a vessel for West's happiness and nothing more. If you were expecting some deep character development and thoughts beyond "I'm traumatized by my mother's murder" and "OMG I MUST GIVE MY EVERYTHING FOR WEST", good luck. The only thing that stood out was that she often has birds in her stomach. WTF author?
West is a fucking creep. I know we're supposed to feel bad for him because his dad is dying of cancer, but he comes off as a complete douchey asshole. He treats women like crap. His first meeting with Maggie involved him trying to blow off some anger by backing her up into a tree and forcing himself on her. We're supposed to cheer for this relationship? He gets increasingly possessive of Maggie to the point that he gets jealous of her cousin and starts threatening him. What the actual fuck. This is not attractive, this is cause for concern.
When people suggest that maybe it's time for Maggie to start healing and speak to people aside from West he gets angry and jealous. Prince Charming is more worried that Maggie speaking will mean that she will have other people in her life aside from him, and that's not ok. Dude, she stopped talking because she saw her dad murder her mom, speaking to people is a sign of her finally moving on after 2 years and he's not ok with this. No. No no no no.
The scenes with West's dad and mom are genuinely sad. Maggie's cousin, aunt, and uncle were great. I was recommended thus book by live-brary probably because I love football books and have been looking for a book version of FNL for awhile (that's not the original Buzz Bissinger book). But this book is a big nope for me, aside from the Milhouse thing and that's only because I'm a weirdo. But some of those future Milhouse's were total creeps, so I guess it makes sense.
I should be less surprised at the amount of slut shaming in this book. I mean, we are living in a world where a presidential candidate calls women pigs and slobs. But seriously, this is a book written by a female author for a female audience, what the actual fuck? Not only that, every girl in this book who are not the female main character are catty, boy crazy, sex crazed, selfish, shallow assholes. They have no other character traits. They all hate each other and constantly fight over boys. Can we stop perpetuating this stupid stereotype in the 21st century? Or perhaps stop this lazy trope?
All the male characters feel that it's ok to use the girls and treat them abhorrently. The only time West, the main male character, feels slightly bad about how he treats girls is when he thinks that Maggie (main female) might find out about it. No remorse otherwise, because those sluts deserve it. What?
Maggie is not a character. Her only thoughts revolve around West. How much she loves him, how jealous she is that they're only friends, how she needs to be his everything. She has no personality whatsoever within her inner monologue. This is not a character. For goodness sake, she saw her dad shoot her mom and spent the last two years mute as a result. There should obviously be more there. She sees herself as a vessel for West's happiness and nothing more. If you were expecting some deep character development and thoughts beyond "I'm traumatized by my mother's murder" and "OMG I MUST GIVE MY EVERYTHING FOR WEST", good luck. The only thing that stood out was that she often has birds in her stomach. WTF author?
West is a fucking creep. I know we're supposed to feel bad for him because his dad is dying of cancer, but he comes off as a complete douchey asshole. He treats women like crap. His first meeting with Maggie involved him trying to blow off some anger by backing her up into a tree and forcing himself on her. We're supposed to cheer for this relationship? He gets increasingly possessive of Maggie to the point that he gets jealous of her cousin and starts threatening him. What the actual fuck. This is not attractive, this is cause for concern.
When people suggest that maybe it's time for Maggie to start healing and speak to people aside from West he gets angry and jealous. Prince Charming is more worried that Maggie speaking will mean that she will have other people in her life aside from him, and that's not ok. Dude, she stopped talking because she saw her dad murder her mom, speaking to people is a sign of her finally moving on after 2 years and he's not ok with this. No. No no no no.
The scenes with West's dad and mom are genuinely sad. Maggie's cousin, aunt, and uncle were great. I was recommended thus book by live-brary probably because I love football books and have been looking for a book version of FNL for awhile (that's not the original Buzz Bissinger book). But this book is a big nope for me, aside from the Milhouse thing and that's only because I'm a weirdo. But some of those future Milhouse's were total creeps, so I guess it makes sense.