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Heroine's Journey
by Sarah Kuhn
fast-paced
Let me be clear - if New York were to be attacked by a demons from another world, I'm rather bow down to our new demonic overlords than be saved by Beatrice Tanaka. I don't think I've ever loathed a protagonist more. I sped through the second half of this book because I have several genuinely good books waiting on the side and I was so certain that I would never come back to it if detoured because I really didn't want to spend more time with this character. Imagine my joy at the end that indicates her presence will be reduced in future books.
Quickly scrolling through the reviews, it seems like people enjoy this so if you do, don't read this because it'll probably hurt your feelings.
I think I just have no idea who this book is for. The explicit, though extremely cheesy sex scenes punt this way out of the young adults category and in theory, Bea is in her early 20s but acts like a 14 year old at best. Zero thoughts about consequences, compassion, considerations for other people, which the other justifies through her internal monologue, which frankly pisses me off some more. There are plenty of people, including her own sister, who goes through trauma, but it's such a poor reason to treat people who love you so terribly. She completely lacks any foresight, integrity, and multiple characters point out her villainous habit of mind control and taking away people's free will, which she justifies through pages worth of tantrum monologues. Her response to the line about Asian women with dyed hair stereotype is so trite, especially as she has so few characteristics to speak of other than bratty and rebellious just for the sake of it, that it made me actively roll my eyes and feel offended as an Asian woman who had gone through her own dyed hair phases. And then having the supposedly highly educated writer say that her response was articulate also made me want to die.
It's extremely rare I think that I give 1 star on any book, but we did it, kids.
Quickly scrolling through the reviews, it seems like people enjoy this so if you do, don't read this because it'll probably hurt your feelings.
I think I just have no idea who this book is for. The explicit, though extremely cheesy sex scenes punt this way out of the young adults category and in theory, Bea is in her early 20s but acts like a 14 year old at best. Zero thoughts about consequences, compassion, considerations for other people, which the other justifies through her internal monologue, which frankly pisses me off some more. There are plenty of people, including her own sister, who goes through trauma, but it's such a poor reason to treat people who love you so terribly. She completely lacks any foresight, integrity, and multiple characters point out her villainous habit of mind control and taking away people's free will, which she justifies through pages worth of tantrum monologues. Her response to the line about Asian women with dyed hair stereotype is so trite, especially as she has so few characteristics to speak of other than bratty and rebellious just for the sake of it, that it made me actively roll my eyes and feel offended as an Asian woman who had gone through her own dyed hair phases. And then having the supposedly highly educated writer say that her response was articulate also made me want to die.
It's extremely rare I think that I give 1 star on any book, but we did it, kids.