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adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
If somehow in 2021, while Jeff Bezos walks the earth, you don’t already hate the extremely wealthy, give this soap opera of a novel a read.
I’m torn over how to rate this, because what I can say to really recommend it is that I wanted to finish it. I wanted to know what happened. However, what the fuck did I just read. Every woman is either a conniving bitch or a gullible dunce, and there’s no in between. At one point, a woman shows signs of having a personality and… she’s tricked into marriage and goes back to her gullible dunce ways. Most women in the book have a sexual assault story arc, and the ones who don’t are subjected to other horrible abuses. The only women with any personality are (obviously) the conniving bitches. There’s one character with hints that he’s gay, and he’s a violent rapist as a result of childhood trauma.
One good takeaway from this book is that the wealthy shouldn’t be able to select from their own bloodlines to pass along all the world’s future wealth, and I think (?) that was sort of the moral of this story, which I did very much appreciate. I enjoyed it? I hated it? I actually wanted to throw it a few times? Sexual assault as a go-to plot point eventually ruined the book for me.
I’m torn over how to rate this, because what I can say to really recommend it is that I wanted to finish it. I wanted to know what happened. However, what the fuck did I just read. Every woman is either a conniving bitch or a gullible dunce, and there’s no in between. At one point, a woman shows signs of having a personality and… she’s tricked into marriage and goes back to her gullible dunce ways. Most women in the book have a sexual assault story arc, and the ones who don’t are subjected to other horrible abuses. The only women with any personality are (obviously) the conniving bitches. There’s one character with hints that he’s gay, and he’s a violent rapist as a result of childhood trauma.
One good takeaway from this book is that the wealthy shouldn’t be able to select from their own bloodlines to pass along all the world’s future wealth, and I think (?) that was sort of the moral of this story, which I did very much appreciate. I enjoyed it? I hated it? I actually wanted to throw it a few times? Sexual assault as a go-to plot point eventually ruined the book for me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Body horror, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexism, Slavery, and Suicide
Minor: Fire/Fire injury
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