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Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
1.0
Stupid, stupid, stupid, is what I was for finishing this book! You know pretty early on that the main character conceived a child from rape. However, to deal with it she explains it to herself as an immaculate conception and this whole talk around this and how she finally deals with this is dealt with horribly. The “twist” at the end resolving this is an insult - an insult to anyone that has ever had to deal with this.
The main character is shallow and I disliked her very much. She’s basically a young woman playing a 1950s type housewife - and an offense to those women, I might add. The level of privilege and how it goes unacknowledged is sickening. Her best friend has two moms but how or why this is relevant to the story is never developed. Many characters are left undeveloped as are the story lines. So this author threw in LGBT issues together with sexual assault and dealt with them as if a joke. Despicable!
What I can’t get over is the number of people reviewing this as romance or love story. They skip right over the rape. This is what is wrong with our society when an author can write a story where rape is FRONT and CENTER but yet it is seen as a love story. How can readers simply skip the rape. I can’t understand. I refuse to try to understand.
I have two other books by her but I will throw them away in the trash rather than have them circulate. This one especially belongs in a dumpster and I’ll make sure I put it there.
The main character is shallow and I disliked her very much. She’s basically a young woman playing a 1950s type housewife - and an offense to those women, I might add. The level of privilege and how it goes unacknowledged is sickening. Her best friend has two moms but how or why this is relevant to the story is never developed. Many characters are left undeveloped as are the story lines. So this author threw in LGBT issues together with sexual assault and dealt with them as if a joke. Despicable!
What I can’t get over is the number of people reviewing this as romance or love story. They skip right over the rape. This is what is wrong with our society when an author can write a story where rape is FRONT and CENTER but yet it is seen as a love story. How can readers simply skip the rape. I can’t understand. I refuse to try to understand.
I have two other books by her but I will throw them away in the trash rather than have them circulate. This one especially belongs in a dumpster and I’ll make sure I put it there.