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Lmao forgot the first book had that fuckass misogynistic group chat! Could really do without it!!

God this is pissing me OFF.

“Feminism apparently lives and dies with white women! Horror is feminist bc I like it and seek it out for comfort!” Is terrible cultural criticism!!

Fucking Mamamia feminist nonsense my GOD

Also would it kill you to just be honest and say you are uninterested in horror as it intersects with all feminism? This is only about white women. The scope doesn’t extend beyond that!

It also props up liberalism as the be all end all - an annoying stance to take given what liberalism has let slide (war crimes, deportation etc etc.)

I also find her inability to talk about how many directors were abusers to be bad cultural critique! Rosemary’s Baby is in my opinion a feminist work but that movie was directed by a man who raped a 13 year old girl. What does this say about feminism that horrible men can adapt feminist stories? What does it say about us that we can like things made by monstrous men? Questions the author doesn’t care about.

It is OKAY to like media that is not feminist, it is fine to read things through a feminist lens even if it does not present that way, it’s okay to point out the flaws in a work that meant well.

What this work does is try to make moral arguments to justify enjoying something. Which to me is a really strange instinct!

There’s something kind of annoying about this? I think it’s that she’s bending over backwards to call works feminist because they can be interpreted in that way. There are no case studies, no actual correlation, she’s just making sweeping statements about how the exorcist helped people consider domestic violence with no thorough argument? Also it’s such a white feminist text.

These fear street books are doing a lot for my mental health.

Camp YA horror from the 90s-2000s please save me ❤️

I am desperate for a book to hit me right in the chest. I keep dnfing or getting frustrated and I loved the first book in this series so I’m begging for it to work!!

I just don’t give a shit. DNF at 20%.

Too twee, too boring, annoying as hell!

Netflix has this policy of second screen viewing where they repeat plot points for people who are on their phones. In doing so TV shows are getting dumbed down and things are getting repetitive. Audiences everywhere feel talked down to. Anyway, this book feels like that.

“Just his luck that the sensation of dancing with her had branded itself on his daydreams. She was like a palmful of mercury: achingly lustrous in light or gloom, slipping cool through his fingers. Gone before he could catch his fist closed.”

Yearning is so fucking back!!!

This is so twee I fear I’m not going to be any less of a hater! Manifesting it gets better!!

Finally got this book from the library after waiting months! Guess I am putting everything aside for it lmao

Going into this with an open heart and mind! This is my year (I’m going to be less of a hater at romance bookclub!)

I’m not done but I do think we all need to go to Silicon Valley and destroy it. Smash windows and such. Inspire fear in them. “Move fast and break things” as those fuckwits would say.

They are just destroying lives for no reason it’s grotesque!

Look there isn’t a slasher that hasn’t crossed this desk. Especially a slasher romcom.

A premise engineered in a lab for me!!!

This is not on this book I can’t focus on fucking ANYTHING lately!!! I need a winner! I need something to be obsessed with!!

This is not sticking in my brain. I’m a bit bored!! Might DNF soon who’s to say?

Picked this up for the vagina teeth of it all, staying for the commentary of bodily autonomy under capitalism

Jesus Christ this could have been an email.

His kids name being Trip is enough for me. Who cares what happens to that child? Steal his girl! Destroy him!

‘This isn’t rock bottom. There’s lower I can go. And I won’t. I’m not nothing. I provide for my girls. I protect them. I’ve made us strong and self-sufficient. I am not begging a male to mount me. Never.

“Knock me out.”’

LMAO!!! Diva down! Please she’s so me having a crush coded!

3.5/5

This is very boring! Very indicative of Australian trad published romance atm where everything is good romance through a sieve. Taking the bare bones of a thing and giving us garbage. Boring! Booo!! Boooo!!!!

1.5/5

I adore being pandered to! Thrilling!

This book is simply not deranged enough. I’m sorry everyone wants to write the cannibalism book but no one is committed to the feral unhinged nature of cannibalism!!!

Feeling like a real fucking loser bc I desperately want these two to stop going to pound town for a second. I think it’s bc the sex is perfect. Why isn’t she more weird about this? Where is the storytelling?!

Charlotte stein pls girl I need them to stop fucking and talk for a second! Begging! Screaming!