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ophie_ 's review for:
Yours for the Taking
by Gabrielle Korn
*** I received a free ARC from Goodreads. My review is mine and mine alone***
This was terrible. I feel like I’ve been catfished by books recently but this one takes the cake. Like I’m usually very easy to please with books. Was I entertained while reading? Yes? Okay 3/4 stars minimum. I’d give this 0 if I could.
I was promised queer love in a dystopian setting. What I got felt more like a checklist of buzzwords and social issues.
Despite all the feminist talking points thrown around in the book I honestly do not believe the author understands feminism at all. It feels a true disservice to any queer person out there along with anyone that identifies as female. She also seems very much like a gold star lesbian that doesn’t even have a place for bisexuals in her utopia.
The author had so many good idea and plot points that were dropped for man hating, straight bashing, evil capitalism rhetoric. And even those weren’t fully delved into. And along those lines JM was built up to be this evil that is already so fleshed out in media. when we could have really had an evil villain that was evil in a more female? Way.
There is a quote in the beginning of the book that felt very much like the author was projecting. “…always neglected to factor in anything other than their own identity.” Now I get we want more representation and stories told from our own communities. However, when the premise of the book and conflict is so global and impacts everyone in the way the author wanted it feels very one dimensional.
Nothing feels fleshed out. The characters feel flat. It reads like poor y/n fan fiction the author wrote and made every character herself. Which is funny because sometimes it reads as self-aggrandizing and other times more self hating.
This wasn’t good. Don’t waste your time. Anything that feels similar was done 10x better. This isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. There isn’t even any point talking about the plot or characters because it truly doesn’t matter.
There is no connection to anyone, everything that feels like it could possibly be significant is thrown out the window during the last 5? Chapters anyways. Nothing matters.
The characters are flat, the world building is almost non existent. The science doesn’t make sense (girl eggs? Wtf). The climate disaster is only described as hot HoT HOT with everything except New York flooded. Anything that managed to feel marginally significant actually really isn’t and gets thrown out.
This was terrible. I feel like I’ve been catfished by books recently but this one takes the cake. Like I’m usually very easy to please with books. Was I entertained while reading? Yes? Okay 3/4 stars minimum. I’d give this 0 if I could.
I was promised queer love in a dystopian setting. What I got felt more like a checklist of buzzwords and social issues.
Despite all the feminist talking points thrown around in the book I honestly do not believe the author understands feminism at all. It feels a true disservice to any queer person out there along with anyone that identifies as female. She also seems very much like a gold star lesbian that doesn’t even have a place for bisexuals in her utopia.
The author had so many good idea and plot points that were dropped for man hating, straight bashing, evil capitalism rhetoric. And even those weren’t fully delved into. And along those lines JM was built up to be this evil that is already so fleshed out in media. when we could have really had an evil villain that was evil in a more female? Way.
There is a quote in the beginning of the book that felt very much like the author was projecting. “…always neglected to factor in anything other than their own identity.” Now I get we want more representation and stories told from our own communities. However, when the premise of the book and conflict is so global and impacts everyone in the way the author wanted it feels very one dimensional.
Nothing feels fleshed out. The characters feel flat. It reads like poor y/n fan fiction the author wrote and made every character herself. Which is funny because sometimes it reads as self-aggrandizing and other times more self hating.
This wasn’t good. Don’t waste your time. Anything that feels similar was done 10x better. This isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. There isn’t even any point talking about the plot or characters because it truly doesn’t matter.
There is no connection to anyone, everything that feels like it could possibly be significant is thrown out the window during the last 5? Chapters anyways. Nothing matters.
The characters are flat, the world building is almost non existent. The science doesn’t make sense (girl eggs? Wtf). The climate disaster is only described as hot HoT HOT with everything except New York flooded. Anything that managed to feel marginally significant actually really isn’t and gets thrown out.