A review by spectrumgaymess
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

sad
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.25

I didn’t know until I read other reviews after finishing the book that Harper Lee may have never intended for this book to be published, but that makes perfect sense after reading it and I hope that’s true but sorry it was done against her wishes. To go from To Kill a Mockingbird to this is…I mean it unfortunately feels very familiar to things we’re seeing now. People being radicalized against minorities by misinformation campaigns. But for the life of me I could not parse what the moral of this book was supposed to be. It’s ok if your family is violently racist? That’s the same shit we’re being told now. We’re the weird ones if we cut people off for thinking there are certain human beings who don’t deserve their human rights. It’s insane. And so was reading this book. At first I had a glimmer of hope and thought Scout was being told they were in those meetings as spies to make sure nothing bad would actually happen but no, they actually believed those things. Fuck off, like actually fuck outta here with that 
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