A review by althechaosbisexual
Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey
1.0
This was originally going to be a two-star. Nothing kept me interested. The characters were flat, the plot was flat, the romance was flat, but I didn't despise reading it. I was more bored than anything.
Then the misogyny hit me in the face. Somebody explain to me what the hell Candy did to Braden for him to talk about her in the way he did? Context, Candy's like a secretary or something.
Now, I know that there's always going to be one person that's like ' What misogyny? I didn't see any misogyny! ' Well, that's why I marked down pages for the first time.
'Fake hair, fake lips. Fake everything. I didn't believe that any parent would willingly name their daughter Candy. She was a Playboy Playmate dressed up as a secretary. This had to be some kind of joke.' (Page 75 in my version of the book). All this character has done in the story is say 'Mr. Fallon will see you now.' Now, that might be me being overly sensitive. So I was willing to throw it under the bus.
Then on page 132 it says, ''Just be sure to water your skank,' I said as I passed him, 'She's looking a little shallow.'' Same fucking character. I'd like to point out that the character hasn't even shown up again from page 75 and I don't even think she shows up again in the book. Who the hell uses the word skank? I have only heard the word 'skank' used in After and you don't want to be like that book.
This has early 2000's level of bad plot, bad characters, bad everything. First of all, nothing really made sense? Braden runs away from home and his uncle doesn't know a thing about it. But when Braden calls him up, the uncle doesn't question shit and is like 'what's up?' Braden willingly gets into a car with Trey after barely talking to him despite the fact he knows about the whole Lansing versus whatever the hell the other dude's name is. I can't remember any of the side character's names because literally, the two other girls' only personality traits were shit-talking each other. There was even a line where one of them asked Braden 'does this dress make me look fat?' cause that's not stereotypical at all.
This book was very disappointing and I would not recommend it.
Then the misogyny hit me in the face. Somebody explain to me what the hell Candy did to Braden for him to talk about her in the way he did? Context, Candy's like a secretary or something.
Now, I know that there's always going to be one person that's like ' What misogyny? I didn't see any misogyny! ' Well, that's why I marked down pages for the first time.
'Fake hair, fake lips. Fake everything. I didn't believe that any parent would willingly name their daughter Candy. She was a Playboy Playmate dressed up as a secretary. This had to be some kind of joke.' (Page 75 in my version of the book). All this character has done in the story is say 'Mr. Fallon will see you now.' Now, that might be me being overly sensitive. So I was willing to throw it under the bus.
Then on page 132 it says, ''Just be sure to water your skank,' I said as I passed him, 'She's looking a little shallow.'' Same fucking character. I'd like to point out that the character hasn't even shown up again from page 75 and I don't even think she shows up again in the book. Who the hell uses the word skank? I have only heard the word 'skank' used in After and you don't want to be like that book.
This has early 2000's level of bad plot, bad characters, bad everything. First of all, nothing really made sense? Braden runs away from home and his uncle doesn't know a thing about it. But when Braden calls him up, the uncle doesn't question shit and is like 'what's up?' Braden willingly gets into a car with Trey after barely talking to him despite the fact he knows about the whole Lansing versus whatever the hell the other dude's name is. I can't remember any of the side character's names because literally, the two other girls' only personality traits were shit-talking each other. There was even a line where one of them asked Braden 'does this dress make me look fat?' cause that's not stereotypical at all.
This book was very disappointing and I would not recommend it.