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Two scenes ago (narratively only a couple hours of the plot) it was explicitly stated to be summer

The radio host just said that Dan Fogelberg died on this day in the story

Which would make it December 16, 2007

Which in South Dakota CANNOT be mistaken for summer

The tribe you're using the name of is indigenous to ECUADOR. The Aztec empire was confined mostly to Mexico. THIS IS MAKING ME INSANE

Calling being a carrier of a non-fatal genetic condition having a "defective genome" is so fucking eugenicist holy fuck

Also what if we didn't call the mixed race kid w albinism "cotton" given the extremely racially charged history of the fibre holy shit lady

Author idk how to explain to you that two parents being carriers for one of the genes that can cause albinism in humans does not guarantee albinism 😭

What the fuck is happening

Anacondas are typically not this actively aggressive btw

The listing the scientific name of every species that gets mentioned thing is super fucking annoying

The dystopia is so annoying bc the author keeps mentioning weird fucked up concepts and then Not Expanding on them

Like girl what the fuck is a "mandatory death experience"

Stop doing racism never before conceived of and explain that shit

I know I'm mostly commenting on mundane bullshit things and not the extremely horrific and overt racism but I'm gonna keep doing that and say this: Jaguars don't purr

Also I hate the main character

"They think you're *El Tigre*, the Jaguar man. Imagine, the long awaited Aztec God"

Author in the meanest way possible, and doing exactly 0 research: you're wrong

1. This tribe is Ecuadorean, the Aztec empire did not extend to Ecuador
2. That means "the tiger"
3. Aztec god names aren't typically in Spanish
4. Jaguar in Spanish is... Jaguar

Oh no

Author please do not be weird about indigenous people (too late)

The genetics don't make any sense either

Also using Daught as shorthand for daughter is very strange and annoying

What the fuck is happening

Minor gripe given the general racist Everything about this book but: facial moles are called beauty marks. Diseased moles are called melanoma usually

Giving the Asian character dragon tattoos :/

Why did this lady invent a bunch of fake racial slurs based on gemstones 😭😭😭

See I knew this was gonna be racist but holy fucking shit I'm 7 pages in and I've read neonazi manifestos less racist than this

"Am I embittered and worn down by the overdrawn and mendacious critics of the last quarter-century?"

Given how bizarrely bitter this intro bit is? I'd say you are yeah.

"Have I really spread nonsense?"

Yes. Next question.

Nancy in the meanest way possible no sixth grader has ever been assigned "writing a sonnet about their best qualities"

Good gd woman have you ever even spoken to a middle schooler? Or like a middle school teacher??

TWELVE SCHOOLS??? She's not even 12 years old man

Unsurprisingly, (because Nancy is a bad writer), Ginger reads EXACTLY THE SAME as Tori did in the last book

What

What does Nancy think a bob haircut... is?

Because you cannot weaponize that haircut

Full offense: bullying does not start in middle school.

I feel like that a common misconception among people who were never bullied to any significant extent.

It starts as early as preschool.

It often WORSENS with age, but it does not start in middle school.

In real life? Someone would have told Ginger she was annoying before this.

Oh boy, this one is from the victim's perspective and as someone who was bullied so bad I got a dissociative disorder about it?

I cannot image it'll be good

Mom come get me Nancy is being weird about people w dwarfism again

Honestly this guy sucks so bad that I kinda wish his accident HAD killed him