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A review by charliegirl21
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
2.0
The only reason this sexist, racist, fat shaming, ableist shit pile is getting a two is because I like Holly and Jerome. I know where this story arc currently ends because I loved the novel Holly, so I like where King starts both of their character(minus the Tyrone shit). If you hate older white men using their narrative voice to write characters who belittle and use slurs against pretty much every other marginalized group, albeit in fiction, I recommend you read the summary of the book and skip this one if you are interested in the series and origins of Holly.
I pretty much disliked most of this, from the creepy incest to the endless use of the n-word and the word cripple. I inspected this as whether it was simply writing a loathsome villain, but a nine year old and their mom also pull out cripple and Jerome does weird slave impersonations. The fat shaming is endless. The vast majority of the women are plot points with tits, minus Holly. The bummer is for a crime novel, it has decent bones. It’s too bad it’s sentence after sentence of vitriol. I’m moving on to the next one. Here’s to hoping King figured it out, because this ain’t it.
I pretty much disliked most of this, from the creepy incest to the endless use of the n-word and the word cripple. I inspected this as whether it was simply writing a loathsome villain, but a nine year old and their mom also pull out cripple and Jerome does weird slave impersonations. The fat shaming is endless. The vast majority of the women are plot points with tits, minus Holly. The bummer is for a crime novel, it has decent bones. It’s too bad it’s sentence after sentence of vitriol. I’m moving on to the next one. Here’s to hoping King figured it out, because this ain’t it.