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lightreads) wrote2024-02-14 11:19 am
lightreads) wrote2024-02-14 11:19 am
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Random in Death by JD Robb
Random in Death
3/5. In Death does an incel. It’s a good procedural as this series goes, and she had the sense to keep the incel POV out until late in the game because blech, who wants to spend a lot of time in there. More importantly, though, I didn’t buy the portrayal of this guy. You could sell me a loner, sure, but zero contact with a broader – I don’t want to call it a “community” so let’s assign incels the collective noun creep -- creep? That is missing the point. This book would have you that this kid invented the mindset from scratch with no input, all while he recites thesis statements from your basic incel internet rantings. It makes the mystery less interesting to solve because you can’t get at him through his contacts, but it also makes the whole thing way less sociopolitically relevant, which is what she’s grasping after with all these Nora-Roberts-thinks-about-the-topic-of-the-day books in the first place.
Content notes: Uh, incel. Attempted rape. Murder of teenagers.
3/5. In Death does an incel. It’s a good procedural as this series goes, and she had the sense to keep the incel POV out until late in the game because blech, who wants to spend a lot of time in there. More importantly, though, I didn’t buy the portrayal of this guy. You could sell me a loner, sure, but zero contact with a broader – I don’t want to call it a “community” so let’s assign incels the collective noun creep -- creep? That is missing the point. This book would have you that this kid invented the mindset from scratch with no input, all while he recites thesis statements from your basic incel internet rantings. It makes the mystery less interesting to solve because you can’t get at him through his contacts, but it also makes the whole thing way less sociopolitically relevant, which is what she’s grasping after with all these Nora-Roberts-thinks-about-the-topic-of-the-day books in the first place.
Content notes: Uh, incel. Attempted rape. Murder of teenagers.
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is it weird that my sticking point (since I was skimming very fast) was the entirely unnecessary making heroin (or whatever, I forgot) from scratch?
but yeah, she means well but she doesn't really understand a lot of the dynamics she tries to write about.
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Lol, yes. He grew the flowers.
Well-meaning but ultimately clueless sums it up, yeah.