Status Updates From Cycler (Cycler, #1)

Like I know this was written for teens but I genuinely do not need this character to tell me about all the sex he had last night every five seconds

This part is so fucking gross good gd

So this is cartoonish criminal levels of child abuse and it's weird that the narrative is treating it as bad but also not treating it as criminal levels of child abuse

Protagonist being saneist again

Her mother is deranged and it's weird that her mother isn't being treated as deranged

"It's not that she's homophobic or anything"

Girl yes the fuck she is

I feel like I would be more sympathetic towards Jack and the inhuman abusive treatment his parents are subjecting him to if he wasn't a massive creep and sex pest weirdo

I get that this was published in 2008 but I'm gonna be real man high schools do not really have that many like weird whole school bullying this one bisexual kid things happening

I don't understand why the protagonist keeps using mal like it's English slang and not just the Spanish word for bad

It feels like I'm supposed to think this weird stalking romance is cute and not Deeply Gross

This segment about how definitely progressive and accepting of gay people Massachusetts is would be more convincing if the character saying it was using So Many Actual Homophobic Slurs

Also I'm sorry but what exactly is your plan as a person who becomes a cis man 4 days a month? Just date straight guys forever? They're not gonna be cool waking up next to your cis man persona idiot

This is fucking weapons grade biphobia holy shit

Literal 60s era slur from our protagonist's guy persona here so that's

Phenomenal /s

And the protagonist is biphobic. Brilliant /s

"I figure it will make me interesting" is a thing no one on planet earth has ever said about a D in calculus

Idk man I think maybe you and your guy who spends 4 days a month in your life would have a healthier relationship if you didn't think of him as a separate person

I'm gonna be real man, I don't think cis guys are THIS into porn. Like they just aren't. Sure many enjoy porn but the idea that it's the only thing they ever think about is an insane myth actually

For a book about how this girl turns into a guy once a month instead of having a period that sure seems to be like

Not that relevant to the plot actually

It's kinda weird

Weird ableism

Idk what I expected from this but clunky as hell plurality wasn't it

So is this like a metaphor for PMDD or?

Absolutely awful in so many ways so far. Biphobia? Check. Sexism? Check both ways. Girl opening her window to a guy who has come to it over four nights and has presumably watched her sleep before when he says "let me in" and then starts whispering her name like an utter creep? Check. Here's the kicker: we, the reader, are in the pov of that disgusting, porn/sex obsessed creep when not following a ""girly-girl."" Ugh.

This may turn out to be my worst read of the year. If I weren't using this as a replacement for a challenge prompt book that I temporarily put down, I'd DNF it. But it's pretty easy to read when I'm not rolling my eyes. So while it may have a challenge factor to it--I figure for now I'd rather just get through it than find yet another book to fill the prompt.

This is so dumb lol I love it