⚣Michaelle⚣’s Reviews > Hemovore > Status Update

Grocery store workers wearing gloves and surgical masks...

When a PNR book resembles RL more than anticipated.

Well...that was anti-climactic.

Man, JCP pulls no punches with this, drawing all kinds of examples from history's marginalized people. Way earlier there was a mention of coming across a hotel that only allowed legally married couples to stay together in a room & the problems of mixed status couples (miscegenation). Now we're at separate facilities (segregation) and badges/embroidered uniforms indicating someone's V+ status (Jews/Holocaust). Damn.

Yeah, there's a whole lot here that harkens back to the initial days of HIV diagnosis (when people actually called it GRIDs - GAY RELATED immunodeficiency disease) plus a heft dose of current bigotry. Gotta love a snarky line about Rush Limbaugh broadcasting on the almost FOX-like *spit* ACN. So much allegory going on here - a much smarter book than I think people give it credit for...

Okay, I was seriously freaking out thinking that the virus was transmitted by contact...the way we're ODing on all things anti-bacterial & anti-viral it's a very real possibility.

But instead, the human MC is overly paranoid, not even taking a chance; which, unfortunately, reminds me all too much of how people w/HIV were originally treated as modern-day lepers (and how some ignorant twats still do).

This is a BINGO Challenge read!