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A review by lauren_shoe
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
2.0
This won the Goodreads choice award for horror??! Really?!?
This reinforces gross stereotypes of all kinds, from the immigrant landscaper to the gender essentialism and some casual racism thrown in. Yuck.
Caught wind of the transphobia accusations before reading, and yeah it’s bad. It’s thinly veiled conservative talking points strung together to try to fool ppl as a plot. Could’ve told you where it was headed from the Jesus-y MC thinking the vegan atheist parents were too much for limiting screen time for their kid. There’s also totally unnecessary cult of fitness/fatphobia garbage that I thought I could overlook but now seems to be part of the whole thing.
It gets 2 stars because I was genuinely creeped out by some of the pictures early on, but the twist is predictable.
This reinforces gross stereotypes of all kinds, from the immigrant landscaper to the gender essentialism and some casual racism thrown in. Yuck.
Caught wind of the transphobia accusations before reading, and yeah it’s bad. It’s thinly veiled conservative talking points strung together to try to fool ppl as a plot. Could’ve told you where it was headed from the Jesus-y MC thinking the vegan atheist parents were too much for limiting screen time for their kid. There’s also totally unnecessary cult of fitness/fatphobia garbage that I thought I could overlook but now seems to be part of the whole thing.
It gets 2 stars because I was genuinely creeped out by some of the pictures early on, but the twist is predictable.