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![]() ![]() One clear example of this is when she outs another lesbian. And she doesn’t improve at all in the book. She just continues being awful and people continue shrugging it off. And this book completely fails to make such a judgement on that. Being closeted is not an excuse for being awful. I cannot stress just how little time I have for characters who are horrible, don’t apologise for being horrible, and then have some bullshit excuse for it. book.īut it’s okay! She’s closeted! She has to protect herself from being considered a lesbian! It’s like that, but not a parody, and for the whole. Think Mean Girls when Regina George is writing in the burn book and parodying herself/Cady. ![]() Anyway, this girl, Taylor, is one of the most popular girls in school. It doesn’t immediately feel like the 90s though – it took me a moment to get that, and I’m still not entirely certain what exactly about the setting was supposed to clue me in (until a date inevitably got mentioned). ![]() It’s about a closeted lesbian teen in a small town in America in the 90s. I’m not quite sure where to start with this book. This book falls squarely into the latter camp. Other times, it’s like pulling teeth because you absolutely do not want to relive the book in any way, shape, or form. Sometimes writing reviews of books you hated is easy. CWs: homophobia, lesbophobic slurs, child abuse, outing, fatphobia (uncontested) ![]()
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