Iman Qadri’s Reviews > Delta of Venus > Status Update

why the fuck are all the sexually deviant characters in this book brown and described as violent and predatory……

mallorca was almost a normal and interesting sapphic story and then BOOM A MAN. EEWWWWWWWW whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy WHY RUIN A GOOD THING

read another story and now i’m wondering why i even bother continuing i feel sick to my stomach

i have more to say… the writing and stories are very revealing of the time. opium and casual abuse. it was a horrible choice for a bedtime read but i’m determined to finish the book just to say i did so. maybe not today though. Nin is interestingly humorous at parts and absolutely gruesome at most. i’m genuinely scared of what’s next. what horrors await me.. i wonder

the backstory of this collection was so interesting and i’d heard things about Nin in passing. well, i forgot that curiosity killed the cat. the first story started off interesting and then quickly dived into straight up rape. horrific to the highest degree. i felt sick and continued reading only in hopes that it would soon end. second story was also horrifying. it’s all women and children being abused…