A review by dapper
Kneel or Die by Michael Anderle
1.0
First, I’m loving this series it’s OTT and fun - not serious, just pure fun
Or it was.. I’m still going to continue reading but I’m not a huge fan of the anti-Muslim rhetoric. It’s usually okay for a character to be racist or bigoted and you kinda look at their views and see where they’re coming from — but it’s another thing to preach islamophobia at the reader
David slain an entire city, turning men, women and children into Nosfer and having them massacre EVERYONE but a small group of people.. but TBQ is hyper focused on revenge for Paris. I can’t help but feel that the Turkey massacre was of such little import due to Turkey being a Muslim nation? Like for real, they went there mainly to hide that there were vamps and saving the survivors was a byproduct.
They should have been going after David, not on religious killing sprees.
⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ This is a rant:
I liked John, but reading his POV when he was ranting about Muslims kinda pissed me off. He says “If the Muslim people hadn’t been allowed to stay there fifty years before…” and just before that remarks on the Dutch’s *hospitality* being treated poorly. This just makes him look ignorant (tho I do have to remind myself John is from Florida so maybe it’s a valid character flaw)
Muslims have been a part of the Netherlands for centuries, mostly starting when the dutch attempted to conquer and colonize Sumatra. Then more recently, the Netherlands recruited foreign Muslims for labor resulting in a larger migration. Many of the migrants have also been mistreated, murdered, abused, and discriminated against before and after any actual terrorist activity.
I’m not Muslim myself, nor religious, but hate blanket statements that paint entire nationalities or religions as one entity. Some Muslims are radical, some white people are radical, some black people are radical. The scene where John goes into a neighborhood with so much hate for EVERYONE around with 0 understanding pains me.
Places where police won’t help (and even actively hurt) and people are unsafe to walk the streets are places that breed ghettos and gangs as a way to protect themselves from from those who cause harm and those who don’t care. And that’s usually how people become radicalized: being alienated.
So yeah. To end the rant, I hated that the book focused so much of killing Muslims instead of the fake vampire/werewolf/alien stuff that I’m actually down to read about.
Or it was.. I’m still going to continue reading but I’m not a huge fan of the anti-Muslim rhetoric. It’s usually okay for a character to be racist or bigoted and you kinda look at their views and see where they’re coming from — but it’s another thing to preach islamophobia at the reader
David slain an entire city, turning men, women and children into Nosfer and having them massacre EVERYONE but a small group of people.. but TBQ is hyper focused on revenge for Paris. I can’t help but feel that the Turkey massacre was of such little import due to Turkey being a Muslim nation? Like for real, they went there mainly to hide that there were vamps and saving the survivors was a byproduct.
They should have been going after David, not on religious killing sprees.
⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ This is a rant:
I liked John, but reading his POV when he was ranting about Muslims kinda pissed me off. He says “If the Muslim people hadn’t been allowed to stay there fifty years before…” and just before that remarks on the Dutch’s *hospitality* being treated poorly. This just makes him look ignorant (tho I do have to remind myself John is from Florida so maybe it’s a valid character flaw)
Muslims have been a part of the Netherlands for centuries, mostly starting when the dutch attempted to conquer and colonize Sumatra. Then more recently, the Netherlands recruited foreign Muslims for labor resulting in a larger migration. Many of the migrants have also been mistreated, murdered, abused, and discriminated against before and after any actual terrorist activity.
I’m not Muslim myself, nor religious, but hate blanket statements that paint entire nationalities or religions as one entity. Some Muslims are radical, some white people are radical, some black people are radical. The scene where John goes into a neighborhood with so much hate for EVERYONE around with 0 understanding pains me.
Places where police won’t help (and even actively hurt) and people are unsafe to walk the streets are places that breed ghettos and gangs as a way to protect themselves from from those who cause harm and those who don’t care. And that’s usually how people become radicalized: being alienated.
So yeah. To end the rant, I hated that the book focused so much of killing Muslims instead of the fake vampire/werewolf/alien stuff that I’m actually down to read about.