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3batsinatrenchcoat 's review for:
Sister, Maiden, Monster
by Lucy A. Snyder
So, so, so tired of cool concepts and and amazing prose hust getting massacred by overbearing politics. Yes I'm well aware that politics have always been in fiction. But holy shifvtheres a right and a wrong way to do it. Fahrenheit 451 is a cool book. I loved it. Animal Farm was just flat boring to me. In terms of politics in horror specifically (at the risk of sounding like a broken record) Stephen King does it right. The author if Lovecraft Country did a good job. These are books that have messages but they assume that the reader is smart enough to figure it out without it being spelled out.
Covid is real and it was serious. I get it, I understood that in 2020. I don't know what the point was in brining up female assault statistics. This was just too on the nose with the covid comparison. I am an escapist reader which is why I think that this sort of thing hits a particular nerve with me.
I loved the writing style so much. The descriptions were disgusting (this is a good thing). The story was cool and the concept of the virus was awesome. But it got overshadowed by lectures and dialogue that could have come from tiktok or YouTube that pulls me completely out if the story.
Stop preaching at me, stop lecturing me. Just tell me a story and if you do it right I'll get the message.
I think that I just need to stop reading YA novels written after 2017. There are so many that sacrifice good story telling for soapboxes and refuse to show and not tell.
Keeping it at 2 starts instead of one because at least with this one the prose was solid, the story was compelling, I love body horror (this author did that expertly, I was appalled lol), and I was able to finish it.
Covid is real and it was serious. I get it, I understood that in 2020. I don't know what the point was in brining up female assault statistics. This was just too on the nose with the covid comparison. I am an escapist reader which is why I think that this sort of thing hits a particular nerve with me.
I loved the writing style so much. The descriptions were disgusting (this is a good thing). The story was cool and the concept of the virus was awesome. But it got overshadowed by lectures and dialogue that could have come from tiktok or YouTube that pulls me completely out if the story.
Stop preaching at me, stop lecturing me. Just tell me a story and if you do it right I'll get the message.
I think that I just need to stop reading YA novels written after 2017. There are so many that sacrifice good story telling for soapboxes and refuse to show and not tell.
Keeping it at 2 starts instead of one because at least with this one the prose was solid, the story was compelling, I love body horror (this author did that expertly, I was appalled lol), and I was able to finish it.