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The Outsider by Melinda Metz
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
The book is what the show is based off. Now knowing that, I should start the television series haha.
Waif by Samantha Kolesnik
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
I don't even know where to begin with this one. I went in blindly, all I'd heard from booktubers is "it's the story about a woman's life upended by meeting a man in a grocery store one night."
I thought they would just have an affair! Not this downward spiral into triggerville and depravity. The quick synopsis that everyone had quickly bypassed isn't the correct one, I feel.
The characters aren't likeable, at all. We have Angie, our main character who is in an abusive relationship and has been abused in the past, except when given the option to leave, she admits she doesn't want to. We pretty quickly realise that Angie may in-fact have mental health problems (believing that God itself had given her a chance encounter of her fantasy man, stalking said guy and his wife etc), on top of that she's in a toxic and sadistic abusive relationship with a man she doesn't love and never did. And then it just notches up a few levels of crazy, towards the end we have a reflection of Angie's self and how she struggled with her sexuality which felt completely out of place and just thrown in for LGBTQIA+ points, honestly. It was never mentioned or alluded to prior, it was just thrown in after all the crazy shit had hit the fan to explain 'why' she was now attracted to a woman she meets in the depraved part of her life now.
Not a good representation of the community or the experience, which leads me to believe it's solely used in this story for brownie points and to be recommended in a queer genre. It's a harmful representation of self discovery, sexual orientation, sexual exploration and the lgbt+ community as a whole.
This story is full of fucked up characters and within saying that I hated it it pretty quickly, however something kept me reading on until the end. Morbid curiosity, I think. To see how it'd end.
I thought they would just have an affair! Not this downward spiral into triggerville and depravity. The quick synopsis that everyone had quickly bypassed isn't the correct one, I feel.
The characters aren't likeable, at all. We have Angie, our main character who is in an abusive relationship and has been abused in the past, except when given the option to leave, she admits she doesn't want to. We pretty quickly realise that Angie may in-fact have mental health problems (believing that God itself had given her a chance encounter of her fantasy man, stalking said guy and his wife etc), on top of that she's in a toxic and sadistic abusive relationship with a man she doesn't love and never did. And then it just notches up a few levels of crazy, towards the end we have a reflection of Angie's self and how she struggled with her sexuality which felt completely out of place and just thrown in for LGBTQIA+ points, honestly. It was never mentioned or alluded to prior, it was just thrown in after all the crazy shit had hit the fan to explain 'why' she was now attracted to a woman she meets in the depraved part of her life now.
Not a good representation of the community or the experience, which leads me to believe it's solely used in this story for brownie points and to be recommended in a queer genre. It's a harmful representation of self discovery, sexual orientation, sexual exploration and the lgbt+ community as a whole.
This story is full of fucked up characters and within saying that I hated it it pretty quickly, however something kept me reading on until the end. Morbid curiosity, I think. To see how it'd end.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Murder, Emotional abuse, Rape, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness