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klainederful 's review for:
The Sentence is Death
by Anthony Horowitz
TW: homophobia
Here's the thing: detective Daniel Hawthorne is the very definition of a problematic fave. I really like him, even though I really really shouldn't.
(Incidentally, I think this is exactly what Horowitz was trying to accomplish with his character.)
He is unlikeable in many ways, and although I can accept (and even appreciate) a lot of flaws in a character, homophobia is NOT one of them.
His attitude towards gay people comes up again in this book, albeit in a less prominent way then in the first one, but it isn't tackled or explored like I expected and hoped it would be. This is mostly because we get no character development for Hawthorne in this volume, and the "secrets" the synopsis alludes to remain exactly that by the end.
My 14-year-old self - who got the first Alex Rider book for Christmas and devoured it in one night - is telling me to trust the author had a good reason for this, and that the issue will be brought up again in future books and resolved in a satisfactory manner. I will do just that, but while I wait for some MAJOR character development, I can't give this book more than 3 stars.
Here's the thing: detective Daniel Hawthorne is the very definition of a problematic fave. I really like him, even though I really really shouldn't.
(Incidentally, I think this is exactly what Horowitz was trying to accomplish with his character.)
He is unlikeable in many ways, and although I can accept (and even appreciate) a lot of flaws in a character, homophobia is NOT one of them.
His attitude towards gay people comes up again in this book, albeit in a less prominent way then in the first one, but it isn't tackled or explored like I expected and hoped it would be. This is mostly because we get no character development for Hawthorne in this volume, and the "secrets" the synopsis alludes to remain exactly that by the end.
My 14-year-old self - who got the first Alex Rider book for Christmas and devoured it in one night - is telling me to trust the author had a good reason for this, and that the issue will be brought up again in future books and resolved in a satisfactory manner. I will do just that, but while I wait for some MAJOR character development, I can't give this book more than 3 stars.