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ky_ 's review for:
The Soul Thief
by Kim Richardson
DID NOT FINISH: 76%
I dnf’d this book. I find it on the apple book store for free and got 3/4 if the way through before I couldn’t take it anymore. Save your time and money please go buy a book worth your time. Here’s everything I noticed:
- racism: there are about 2 characters who’s race isn’t exactly clear because the only real description you get from them is that their skin is “mocha colored”. They really only appear in the background or when the main character needs them and they don’t really have any dialogue. Honestly pretty disgusting.
- misogyny: the mc is a woman who apparently “isn’t like other girls” and gets along with literally no one. Her only personality trait is being quirky because she died in the most unrealistic way possible. And though the main character is fighting demons the whole time she focuses on her love interests ex girlfriend more than the actual problems.
- and the part that made me close the book almost immediately: the author uses pagan gods as a plot device and portrays them an villainous and monstrous. One of the characters says “they got a lot of their mojo from worshipers who fed them blood and souls, and while some of them were indifferent to humans, most were evil. Many of them ate human flesh, and they accepted virgin souls as sacrificial offerings”. I don’t know how much more tone def the author could be. This is very much blatantly offensive to anyone who worships a pagan pantheon. This gives very much “the Christian god is the only right god” vibes.
Do yourself a favor and save yourself from the absolute train wreck that is this book. Reading a fan fiction published on wattpad from 2014 would be a better use of your time.
- racism: there are about 2 characters who’s race isn’t exactly clear because the only real description you get from them is that their skin is “mocha colored”. They really only appear in the background or when the main character needs them and they don’t really have any dialogue. Honestly pretty disgusting.
- misogyny: the mc is a woman who apparently “isn’t like other girls” and gets along with literally no one. Her only personality trait is being quirky because she died in the most unrealistic way possible. And though the main character is fighting demons the whole time she focuses on her love interests ex girlfriend more than the actual problems.
- and the part that made me close the book almost immediately: the author uses pagan gods as a plot device and portrays them an villainous and monstrous. One of the characters says “they got a lot of their mojo from worshipers who fed them blood and souls, and while some of them were indifferent to humans, most were evil. Many of them ate human flesh, and they accepted virgin souls as sacrificial offerings”. I don’t know how much more tone def the author could be. This is very much blatantly offensive to anyone who worships a pagan pantheon. This gives very much “the Christian god is the only right god” vibes.
Do yourself a favor and save yourself from the absolute train wreck that is this book. Reading a fan fiction published on wattpad from 2014 would be a better use of your time.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Death