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A review by pickledpotato1021
Alison Wonderland by Helen Smith
1.0
Trigger/Content warnings may be considered spoilers about certain themes or plot twists in the story
Transphobic slur (not fag, meaning cigarette in the author's region); Sexism, Quid Pro Quo; Beastiality; Racist slur; Drug abuse; Fatphobia; Mentions of a dead baby; Child abandonment; Kidnapping
Alison Temple, a woman working for an all female PI company, gets a wild case, and then decides to go on a road trip with her best friend.
Helen Smith mentions an editor in her acknowledgements. I've written his name down so should I ever publish a book I stay far far away from him. Grammar rules are not followed, there's missing words everywhere, improper punctuation… I could go on. Smith also only uses first person POV for Alison. And really poorly done third person POV for chapters about any other character without giving a hint at who's POV we're following. There's non-stop run on sentences. Smith also decided to give us a paragraph with the world's most poorly written blowjob out of NOWHERE. She has a scene where Alison and Taron have done substances and proceed to drink booze to "take the edge off". I cannot stress how horribly awfully dangerous and DEADLY this is. Do not EVER mix substances and booze. There's a scene where an old man makes love to a sheep pig. Why? No clue. The author has an obsession with abandoned babies, substance abuse, and edge lord culture. Each character was awful in their own right. Alison Temple: Goes by Alison Wonderland 3-5 times the whole book. Private investigator who specializes in cheating men because she was cheated on. She is now (randomly) investigating some animal abuse drug experiment thing. Clive: Brother of Mrs. Fitzgerald (owner of the PI company Alison works for) who is mentally ill and plays into digesting, offensive, and harmful stereotypes. Taron: Drug using best friend of Alison. Has maybe 2 brain cells on a good day. Believes in every superstition known to man from every culture known to man. Wants Alison to find an abandoned baby for her mother who is lonely. Taron's mom: Claims to be a witch who communicates telepathically. Basically an insult to paganism. There’s also a slew of random characters we know nothing about or why they matter, and truly they don’t matter. In summary, Helen Smith made a mockery of Paganism, insulted fat people, promoted substance abuse and deadly mixing of substances and insulted Romani, transgender, and mentally ill people as well as women. The author and the editor of this book had to be intoxicated on something to publish this, and frankly anyone who gave it more than 3 stars had to be intoxicated while reading it.
Transphobic slur (not fag, meaning cigarette in the author's region); Sexism, Quid Pro Quo; Beastiality; Racist slur; Drug abuse; Fatphobia; Mentions of a dead baby; Child abandonment; Kidnapping
Alison Temple, a woman working for an all female PI company, gets a wild case, and then decides to go on a road trip with her best friend.
Helen Smith mentions an editor in her acknowledgements. I've written his name down so should I ever publish a book I stay far far away from him. Grammar rules are not followed, there's missing words everywhere, improper punctuation… I could go on. Smith also only uses first person POV for Alison. And really poorly done third person POV for chapters about any other character without giving a hint at who's POV we're following. There's non-stop run on sentences. Smith also decided to give us a paragraph with the world's most poorly written blowjob out of NOWHERE. She has a scene where Alison and Taron have done substances and proceed to drink booze to "take the edge off". I cannot stress how horribly awfully dangerous and DEADLY this is. Do not EVER mix substances and booze. There's a scene where an old man makes love to a sheep pig. Why? No clue. The author has an obsession with abandoned babies, substance abuse, and edge lord culture. Each character was awful in their own right. Alison Temple: Goes by Alison Wonderland 3-5 times the whole book. Private investigator who specializes in cheating men because she was cheated on. She is now (randomly) investigating some animal abuse drug experiment thing. Clive: Brother of Mrs. Fitzgerald (owner of the PI company Alison works for) who is mentally ill and plays into digesting, offensive, and harmful stereotypes. Taron: Drug using best friend of Alison. Has maybe 2 brain cells on a good day. Believes in every superstition known to man from every culture known to man. Wants Alison to find an abandoned baby for her mother who is lonely. Taron's mom: Claims to be a witch who communicates telepathically. Basically an insult to paganism. There’s also a slew of random characters we know nothing about or why they matter, and truly they don’t matter. In summary, Helen Smith made a mockery of Paganism, insulted fat people, promoted substance abuse and deadly mixing of substances and insulted Romani, transgender, and mentally ill people as well as women. The author and the editor of this book had to be intoxicated on something to publish this, and frankly anyone who gave it more than 3 stars had to be intoxicated while reading it.