M’s Reviews > Tell Me I’m Worthless > Status Update

"The future will be red-tinted and unknowable, but they will be together."

Cool! Didn't like the TERF character suddenly being trans in the epilogue!

'You' chapter... I get what it was going for. It didn't work for me.

'Is that the House's voice? Or mine?'

"...It makes you scream because you know that truly you can't change a single thing in this godforsaken country, a country so racist it will vote to kill its own immune system right before a global pandemic, a country so racist the very ground stinks..."

"where were you when we lost the culture war?"

So, there is a difference between having a book be chock-full of every ism, and having it come from the main character. And this section has a lot of it.

"...and when does a culture war become a real war, where is the line that is crossed, it is the spilling of blood and has blood already spilled?"

Re: transphobic sex scene: reading this is A Lot, but I can see how writing it would be cathartic.

Yeah, no, the transphobia sex scene is not doing it for me.

That was... brutal. I like the, for lack of a better term, split perspective section. It was clever, and represented the scene better than a typical narrative could have. Haunting.

'We are all here now. We wait for you. Irreversibly damaged.'

Ohhh wow. Hannah's scene is very creepily effective.