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A review by cucumberedpickle
Witch by T.L. Brown
1.0
TOXIC - TOXIC - TOXIC!!
This was the biggest piece of trash I have read. There are so many problems with it. Plot? Hard to follow. Characters? Basically the same people on repeat. Setting? Confusing. Transitions? Horrible. I am not sure if there is a redeeming quality in this entire book. I’m just going to go ahead and bullet point a few additional things:
- I know this is a novel for young adults but as far as high school is concerned. NO one speaks like that. “Slut” every few minutes in the first chapter talking about how everyone is a whore? AND THEN the (apparent) protagonist is looking to have sex with everyone throughout the entire book?
- almost every male character is big and strong and smells good or like sex? Why would a virgin 17 year old know what sex smells like? Is she creeping in her parents room?
- SHE’S 17! I felt gross reading about these (25 in body but 300 in experience) guys wanting to have sex with her. Not to mention some scenes are boarder-line rapey and she…finds that hot? Talk about toxic.
- Why do the female characters all seem vapid and horny? While the males seem a step away from rapists.
- The book ALMOST hit every stereotype. (Females = weak and dependent on men. Gay guys = “super gay”. Men = big, strong and horny with macisimo/rapey bs. Black woman = mammy sounding even though it’s been hundreds of years since slavery. Matriarch = articulate woman who (despite the written proclamation) seems to still have a dominant relationship over the black woman.)
I simply can’t believe this book has such a high score. I’m absolutely baffled.
This was the biggest piece of trash I have read. There are so many problems with it. Plot? Hard to follow. Characters? Basically the same people on repeat. Setting? Confusing. Transitions? Horrible. I am not sure if there is a redeeming quality in this entire book. I’m just going to go ahead and bullet point a few additional things:
- I know this is a novel for young adults but as far as high school is concerned. NO one speaks like that. “Slut” every few minutes in the first chapter talking about how everyone is a whore? AND THEN the (apparent) protagonist is looking to have sex with everyone throughout the entire book?
- almost every male character is big and strong and smells good or like sex? Why would a virgin 17 year old know what sex smells like? Is she creeping in her parents room?
- SHE’S 17! I felt gross reading about these (25 in body but 300 in experience) guys wanting to have sex with her. Not to mention some scenes are boarder-line rapey and she…finds that hot? Talk about toxic.
- Why do the female characters all seem vapid and horny? While the males seem a step away from rapists.
- The book ALMOST hit every stereotype. (Females = weak and dependent on men. Gay guys = “super gay”. Men = big, strong and horny with macisimo/rapey bs. Black woman = mammy sounding even though it’s been hundreds of years since slavery. Matriarch = articulate woman who (despite the written proclamation) seems to still have a dominant relationship over the black woman.)
I simply can’t believe this book has such a high score. I’m absolutely baffled.