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A review by marissalikestoread
Guilt at the Garage by Simon Brett
2.0
I used to enjoy Brett’s novels as audiobooks, but then he started reading them himself. He is awful as a narrator—he removes all the humor and inserts loud sniffs every couple of sentences. So I read this one as an actual hardcover book.
I was shocked by several instances of a terrible slur. Our heroines don’t respond by saying “Jeez, don’t say that.” The fact that Brett describes the character about whom the slur is used as having an oriental face also put me off. It was already made clear that she was a native of Thailand. No other character is described at first appearance as having a Caucasian face.
There is a lesbian couple in the book, who are friends with one of the heroines but frowned upon by the other. The narrator notes (as a positive) that the lesbians avoid showing affection or discussing their relationship in social situations in order to make others feel comfortable.
I feel like the target audience for this book is an 80-year-old circa 1983.
I was shocked by several instances of a terrible slur. Our heroines don’t respond by saying “Jeez, don’t say that.” The fact that Brett describes the character about whom the slur is used as having an oriental face also put me off. It was already made clear that she was a native of Thailand. No other character is described at first appearance as having a Caucasian face.
There is a lesbian couple in the book, who are friends with one of the heroines but frowned upon by the other. The narrator notes (as a positive) that the lesbians avoid showing affection or discussing their relationship in social situations in order to make others feel comfortable.
I feel like the target audience for this book is an 80-year-old circa 1983.