geolatin 's review for:

Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine

2.0

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I think the thing most interesting about this book is how the main character embraces "Treasure Island" as a life manifesto & both tries to emulate what she's gotten out of it & evangelizes it. What comes out is a distorted sense of the book, a destructive mentality built from those distortions, & ultimately destroyed relationships. It is almost a satire of how people of all religions use their holy writings to further their own agendas without paying attention to how it actually is playing out for good or ill. I enjoyed it in how it made me think of how I have the capacity to distort the Bible if I'm not careful (which I'm not always careful). However, it's not the best writing & the main character is a bit tiresome to spend much time with. Fortunately, it's a short book.