A review by courtney_mm
Queenie, by Candice Carty-Williams
2.0
So far she is annoying and needs to fucking leave that white boy alone why she so obsessed with him when clearly he don't give a fuck.
literally all of these characters are annoyingggg. like her friends are kinda good friends but they also kinda mean. but I also feel bad for them because literally all queenie does is complain and talk about her problems and doesn't give them space to do anything. like they literally only exist for her purposes
LEAVE TOM omg he and his family is racist and he's mean why are u so torn up about him. and the thing with ted was so icky. all her interactions with men are icky
and the blm protest ESPICALLY but all the blm stuff just feels so forced and out of place, and all the modern references like its trying too hard to be black and woke and modern.
is queenie relatable? i guess in some ways yes but more annoying and sad than anything
Sigh. I feel the same exact way i felt about I'm not your mexican daughter. Like in the beginning so annoyed at her for being annoying but then when she had had the big episode i was like oh ... my b and the actually started to like the book a lot more. Maybe I'm just a bad person and mentally ill people get on my nerves. But now knowing more about her child hood trauma with her mom and what not i have a lot more understanding and empathy for her.
Okayyyyy so after finishing the book i actually liked it a lot more than i started. Like i really enjoyed seeing queenie's growth and realization that all the men in her life were trash. Sis was going through it and i have accepted she needed that. And there were moments where i really did lol like the description of the neo nazi. I also really started loving her friends and family a lot more after i realized how loyal they were, like i love Darcy and Kyazike and how they ride for her and also their friendship with each other. Cassandra can rot.
So yeah definitely a really interesting book with highs and lows and made me think a lot about my own life.
literally all of these characters are annoyingggg. like her friends are kinda good friends but they also kinda mean. but I also feel bad for them because literally all queenie does is complain and talk about her problems and doesn't give them space to do anything. like they literally only exist for her purposes
LEAVE TOM omg he and his family is racist and he's mean why are u so torn up about him. and the thing with ted was so icky. all her interactions with men are icky
and the blm protest ESPICALLY but all the blm stuff just feels so forced and out of place, and all the modern references like its trying too hard to be black and woke and modern.
is queenie relatable? i guess in some ways yes but more annoying and sad than anything
Sigh. I feel the same exact way i felt about I'm not your mexican daughter. Like in the beginning so annoyed at her for being annoying but then when she had had the big episode i was like oh ... my b and the actually started to like the book a lot more. Maybe I'm just a bad person and mentally ill people get on my nerves. But now knowing more about her child hood trauma with her mom and what not i have a lot more understanding and empathy for her.
Okayyyyy so after finishing the book i actually liked it a lot more than i started. Like i really enjoyed seeing queenie's growth and realization that all the men in her life were trash. Sis was going through it and i have accepted she needed that. And there were moments where i really did lol like the description of the neo nazi. I also really started loving her friends and family a lot more after i realized how loyal they were, like i love Darcy and Kyazike and how they ride for her and also their friendship with each other. Cassandra can rot.
So yeah definitely a really interesting book with highs and lows and made me think a lot about my own life.