A review by witbeyndmehsure
Cellies, Vol. 1 by Joe Flood, Davis Stuart II
2.0
Ummm.
I went in knowing that this was about the lives of the people working at this store, but my goodness was it boring. I'm not sure who the audience is supposed to be for this. Is it young adults? New adults? Adult Adults? I just don't know. The only teenager working at this store is Rey, who's Muslim and has strict parents. The only other character who seems somewhat younger is Pete but only because he's completely immature. Their boss Christian is completely incompetent and just leaves whenever he wants, Jerome is their older co-worker who apparently is often the butt of a lot of ageist jokes from the redhead girl who's name I cannot recall, but her dad is CEO of the phone store chain? She also does some casual racism and microaggressions touching the new girl's hair, who's Black? Afro-Latina maybe. Baby girl finished her MBA and is working at this phone store trying to move into corporate. I'm just a lowly librarian with absolutely no concept of how corporate works but, sis. Come on.
This was such a chore to get through. Won't be reading volume 2. UNLESS they did an entire volume of people's submitted Retail Nightmare stories. I would love to read that because those were the highlights of this collection.
I went in knowing that this was about the lives of the people working at this store, but my goodness was it boring. I'm not sure who the audience is supposed to be for this. Is it young adults? New adults? Adult Adults? I just don't know. The only teenager working at this store is Rey, who's Muslim and has strict parents. The only other character who seems somewhat younger is Pete but only because he's completely immature. Their boss Christian is completely incompetent and just leaves whenever he wants, Jerome is their older co-worker who apparently is often the butt of a lot of ageist jokes from the redhead girl who's name I cannot recall, but her dad is CEO of the phone store chain? She also does some casual racism and microaggressions touching the new girl's hair, who's Black? Afro-Latina maybe. Baby girl finished her MBA and is working at this phone store trying to move into corporate. I'm just a lowly librarian with absolutely no concept of how corporate works but, sis. Come on.
This was such a chore to get through. Won't be reading volume 2. UNLESS they did an entire volume of people's submitted Retail Nightmare stories. I would love to read that because those were the highlights of this collection.