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A review by emilybennett
The Master Of Telekinesis: The Ancient Tree by Idan Knochen
Did not finish book.
2.0
I received a copy of this book on Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I dnf-ed this book 27% in. There are quite a few reasons for this and I will explain them here. Firstly, I found the beginning of this book far too long and unnecessarily drawn out. It felt unrealistic and awkward, and didn't give me high hopes for the rest of the novel.
This book also included some harmful messages and attitudes, for example there are fatphobic jokes and Timmy is made fun of and laughed at because he's larger, there were instances of objectification of women, coming from very young characters, and a Native-American tribe is used to scare the main characters, the phrase "suspiciously Indian" being used by the character we follow. (all of this in the first 80 pages)
Overall, I was bored, and I was disgusted that these things were included in a middle-grade book published this year. These are not the messages that should be in a book targeted at such an impressionable audience.
I dnf-ed this book 27% in. There are quite a few reasons for this and I will explain them here. Firstly, I found the beginning of this book far too long and unnecessarily drawn out. It felt unrealistic and awkward, and didn't give me high hopes for the rest of the novel.
This book also included some harmful messages and attitudes, for example there are fatphobic jokes and Timmy is made fun of and laughed at because he's larger, there were instances of objectification of women, coming from very young characters, and a Native-American tribe is used to scare the main characters, the phrase "suspiciously Indian" being used by the character we follow. (all of this in the first 80 pages)
Overall, I was bored, and I was disgusted that these things were included in a middle-grade book published this year. These are not the messages that should be in a book targeted at such an impressionable audience.