Kristina ’s Reviews > Letters to Dogwood > Status Update

I’m biting my tongue.

That is, about banks and their historic lack of generosity.

Banks love extending credit to people because of their 18 year old daughter’s business ideas.

My eyes are rolling.

That generated a bark of laughter, seeing as how it wouldn’t have happened even in 1980. Not unless the father was actually there & nodding along like a bobblehead.

I mean, technically, they could never reveal any of his financial information to her without his say so and sign off, so wouldn’t happen today. But also extending a Woman credit is something that only became legal in 1980. Or so, depending where you live. This author seems to want to show a misogynistic society, but only when it’s convenient to her plot.

It’s the modern HR way: to soapbox on how the past was so awful, but only when convenient to a nonsensical plot.

Also, yeah…I used to work at a bank & unless the daughter had power of attorney, was a full-on business partner (+ the account was a business account), or the father was physically present with her, they weren’t allowed to discuss someone’s private finances with someone else. Period.

Plot convenient anachronisms are so annoying to me. Also plot convenient facts anre annoying to me. But I’ve made no secret of this. I think everybody knows by now. 😆

Anyone who thinks fiction means authors can just make up whatever the heck they want should look elsewhere for friendship. Lol.

That’s what gets me, though…banks having a privacy policy is adulthood knowledge, surely? Because even if you didn’t know the details, wouldn’t one assume they don’t go handing out $$ information to anyone who asks for it? DURRR. 🤓 That’s not even historical research—it’s just basic common sense.

I find it amusing that the meaner I’ve gotten over the decade+ I’ve spent on GR, the more friend requests I’ve gotten. Lolol.

This author is trying very hard to prove how special a snowflake this woman is. So maybe we’re supposed to think her charm overcomes laws and logic and the bank managers just couldn’t resist her. I mean she’s best friends with every prostitute in town, and also hired all the Black people to work in her hotel when nobody else would. I can’t with this book.

I call my reviewer style ‘delightful curmudgeon’ and it mostly serves me well. Except I had to turn off comments to public to this morning because trolls be trolling. 🤷🏼‍♀️. I think people are looking for realistic reviewers and tired of the people pleasers and arcies who accept any pablum served to them. They have their place too, I guess. Hahaha

Ah, one of those heroines—the ones that make Dr Quinn look like Cruella. 🤢

True, that. Nobody likes a bully reviewer (actual bullies, not the troll brigade’s concept of bullying 🙄), but a healthy dose of not-auto-five-star-gushing goes a long way.

Lol. I can think of some Harlequin authors who wouldn’t survive without the pablum people-pleaser ARCies.

If Dr. Quinn was a wide eyed teenager, she’d be this woman. Except you’d have to add very large boobs.

Critical reviewing is good, attacking the character of the author is bad, and you have to balance it out with actually giving five stars Once in a while. you can’t just dish out one stars for every thing. Those reviewers are just assholes. If I see someone with an average rating under two stars, I know they’re just a miserable bee.

I can think of a few miserable bees I’ve met on GR. 😶 It’s impressive how much these people hate everything they try—like, why do you even read? Perhaps you should take up knitting or biking or gardening instead.