Wow, that was the fastest spork I ever did see! The chapters were so short and uneven in content that if I had split it up any further the community would have had two weeks of spamming. Made more sense to get the suffering over with quickly.
...wait what? THAT'S IT? Seriously? What a ripoff! Yup, that was it. That ending may have worked for a YA novel if there had been any point to the rest of the story.
So she was only good at it because of MAGIC, not talent and years of hard work. This is every bit as insulting as saying all ancient monuments outside of Europe were built by frigging aliens, because god forbid them brown folks just be clever and inventive. Bingo. At least we had other Black musicians in the book who, at least from what we saw, did in fact get good just from talent and practice.
Kelly writes Williams as an irritating whiny fool with bizarre incestuous desires and a lousy woe is me attitude, so how is anyone likely to find this character likeable? Same issue as with Annina--whiny, entitled, bratty to those trying to help her, and such a blinding idiot that she was entirely unlikable. Williams is just as unlikable, in different ways. And to have the one reviewer call it a 'girl power' book and that that's Kelly's 'thing' is incredibly insulting to girls.
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Date: 2024-12-29 11:44 am (UTC)The chapters were so short and uneven in content that if I had split it up any further the community would have had two weeks of spamming. Made more sense to get the suffering over with quickly.
...wait what? THAT'S IT? Seriously? What a ripoff!
Yup, that was it. That ending may have worked for a YA novel if there had been any point to the rest of the story.
So she was only good at it because of MAGIC, not talent and years of hard work. This is every bit as insulting as saying all ancient monuments outside of Europe were built by frigging aliens, because god forbid them brown folks just be clever and inventive.
Bingo.
At least we had other Black musicians in the book who, at least from what we saw, did in fact get good just from talent and practice.
Kelly writes Williams as an irritating whiny fool with bizarre incestuous desires and a lousy woe is me attitude, so how is anyone likely to find this character likeable?
Same issue as with Annina--whiny, entitled, bratty to those trying to help her, and such a blinding idiot that she was entirely unlikable. Williams is just as unlikable, in different ways. And to have the one reviewer call it a 'girl power' book and that that's Kelly's 'thing' is incredibly insulting to girls.