A review by paperpetal
The Write Place by Allie Samberts

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

I really did love this book. 
However, I’m deducting a star because of Daniel’s POV bonus chapter. It has one little passage that set me off. He mentions the female antagonist not wanting children and it essentially being a character flaw. “Nothing with her was ever easy, and she made it very clear she never wants children.” 

Alison, the female antagonist, is horrible from what we’ve been told. She is given the traits of being condescending and manipulative. Not wanting children and being direct about it with your partner is not a character flaw! As note to this author and all authors, Please! Please! Please! Stop associating not wanting children with being a bad woman and partner. The two have no correlation. If anything her being honest about not wanting kids is a good trait. 

I’ve seen this a lot in the female antagonist trope and it needs to stop. I’m only writing this now because it’s my most recent run in with it. As a CFBC woman I can not reiterate enough how damaging it is to us. For how many times “feminist” is dropped in this book, this trope is actively anti-feminist.