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A review by piddlepiddle
Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey
2.0
While I appreciate what this book was trying to do, it didn't feel that realistic or true to form of what homophobia is like in small towns. The characters felt like stereotypes of who they were supposed to be; the homophobic white lady who is god-fearing but also hates her life and husband, etc. I guess it was nice to have a HEA ending, but it also felt unrealistic.
This book did make me tear up and at certain parts it was hard to read because of the homophobia/transphobia, but at other parts I was cringing at how stereotypical certain characters arcs and stories were. If the characters were further fleshed out and certain topics were explored more I would have enjoyed the book a lot more.
I really liked the portion of where Tegan had to deal with seeing the perspectives of the other townspeople. I think it could have been an interesting study to delve further into that topic of should we try to be nice and understanding to those who are not nice and understanding to us? And how Christine's portion talked about how hate covered up other emotions. I feel like this book set out to cover the many facets of homophobia, but it would have been better (imo) to focus on one facet and deep dive into it. Because of all the different topics covered it all felt very surface level and stereotypical.
This book did make me tear up and at certain parts it was hard to read because of the homophobia/transphobia, but at other parts I was cringing at how stereotypical certain characters arcs and stories were. If the characters were further fleshed out and certain topics were explored more I would have enjoyed the book a lot more.
I really liked the portion of where Tegan had to deal with seeing the perspectives of the other townspeople. I think it could have been an interesting study to delve further into that topic of should we try to be nice and understanding to those who are not nice and understanding to us? And how Christine's portion talked about how hate covered up other emotions. I feel like this book set out to cover the many facets of homophobia, but it would have been better (imo) to focus on one facet and deep dive into it. Because of all the different topics covered it all felt very surface level and stereotypical.