Book Thowing Log: Entry 1
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mishalakThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires.
The protagonist just took a whole bottle of prozac because she was angry. Then when she's in a hospital and being manipulated by her husband using her children she thinks, "I'll never forgive him for this." The book cuts to three years later and she's still with her husband. If I had a physical book it would have just met my drywall with a thump. I don't expect my protagonists to be perfect, but I do expect them to not be desperately stupid. Also I have issues with anything that looks like a suicide attempt in fiction. I'm a little more than halfway through.
Up to this point it was a difficult read that was also compelling because of good descriptions, being a window into a very different life, and character types. Southern housewife having to deal with social situations and keeping a house together. On top of all that a vampire moves in. I am probably going to follow the advice of friends and never bother with a book set in the south again because every one I have read tends towards the depressing.
There were definitely moments where I felt like the protagonist was getting on top of the situation and was showing herself to be a big damn hero in her own way, but I'm done. Life is too short for mediocre books that put the reader through an emotional wringer in order to cover up the writer's shortcomings. It is not Steel Magnolias meets Dracula. It is The Stepford Wives meets a slasher movie that puts on a self-awarded "feminist" badge for having the abused female character kill the monster after putting her through hell for whole length of the movie.
Award: "This would have made a lovely sound if skimmed into a pond."
The protagonist just took a whole bottle of prozac because she was angry. Then when she's in a hospital and being manipulated by her husband using her children she thinks, "I'll never forgive him for this." The book cuts to three years later and she's still with her husband. If I had a physical book it would have just met my drywall with a thump. I don't expect my protagonists to be perfect, but I do expect them to not be desperately stupid. Also I have issues with anything that looks like a suicide attempt in fiction. I'm a little more than halfway through.
Up to this point it was a difficult read that was also compelling because of good descriptions, being a window into a very different life, and character types. Southern housewife having to deal with social situations and keeping a house together. On top of all that a vampire moves in. I am probably going to follow the advice of friends and never bother with a book set in the south again because every one I have read tends towards the depressing.
There were definitely moments where I felt like the protagonist was getting on top of the situation and was showing herself to be a big damn hero in her own way, but I'm done. Life is too short for mediocre books that put the reader through an emotional wringer in order to cover up the writer's shortcomings. It is not Steel Magnolias meets Dracula. It is The Stepford Wives meets a slasher movie that puts on a self-awarded "feminist" badge for having the abused female character kill the monster after putting her through hell for whole length of the movie.
Award: "This would have made a lovely sound if skimmed into a pond."
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Date: 2020-05-29 01:27 am (UTC)