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nettles's review
dark
medium-paced
1.0
👀😬 I'm sorry what was that reveal??
Getting one star bc the content is genuinely harmful but let it be known that the art deserves 5 and the writing deserves zero!!!
Absolutely stunning art. Simon Gane, this book did not deserve you!
The story is so unsettling and creepy and ending anticlimactic that I had to check the other comments on here to make sure I wasn't reading this wrong...????
Summary
(aka me trying to make sense of this plot)
So Rachel gets invited to spend a summer in Greece with her dad's estranged friends out of the blue. While she's there, the wife, Diane, gives her revealing clothing and lipstick and sets her up with a local boy.
The vibes are OFF. The town talks about how Diane has a new young guest every year. Rachel is kinda dating that boy Ben, but she knows something is up between him and Diane.
The big reveal? Diane and Ben are sleeping together??? It's implied that the couple invites young people every year to prey on them, but Rachel was invited this year to be in a fake relationship with Ben to keep down rumors.
And most commenters are either confused but the ambiguity because it is VERY unclear. Or they seem to have this same understanding and don't find this absolutely disgusting for some reason...?
Rachel is mad at Ben even tho he is a victim. It's unclear if it's and adult/minor relationship--I think it is--but the power dynamic is entirely wrong. Ben has no money to leave, he feels indebted to Diane for getting him a ticket to Greece in the first place. Rachel says "I would never do what you are doing!" As if he wasn't trafficked.!????
Diane tells Rachel not to make a big deal and implies her husband knows so it's okay? !!!!!????
Rachel leaves and tells everyone she had a great trip and she would love to go back to Greece????????
The problem isn't that it has dark content. The problem is that it's dealt with horribly/not at all. Even if we show Rachel is uncomfortable and powerless, she doesn't seem disturbed.
Idk. Wtf
Getting one star bc the content is genuinely harmful but let it be known that the art deserves 5 and the writing deserves zero!!!
Absolutely stunning art. Simon Gane, this book did not deserve you!
The story is so unsettling and creepy and ending anticlimactic that I had to check the other comments on here to make sure I wasn't reading this wrong...????
Summary
(aka me trying to make sense of this plot)
The vibes are OFF. The town talks about how Diane has a new young guest every year. Rachel is kinda dating that boy Ben, but she knows something is up between him and Diane.
The big reveal? Diane and Ben are sleeping together??? It's implied that the couple invites young people every year to prey on them, but Rachel was invited this year to be in a fake relationship with Ben to keep down rumors.
And most commenters are either confused but the ambiguity because it is VERY unclear. Or they seem to have this same understanding and don't find this absolutely disgusting for some reason...?
Rachel is mad at Ben even tho he is a victim. It's unclear if it's and adult/minor relationship--I think it is--but the power dynamic is entirely wrong. Ben has no money to leave, he feels indebted to Diane for getting him a ticket to Greece in the first place. Rachel says "I would never do what you are doing!" As if he wasn't trafficked.!????
Diane tells Rachel not to make a big deal and implies her husband knows so it's okay? !!!!!????
Rachel leaves and tells everyone she had a great trip and she would love to go back to Greece????????
The problem isn't that it has dark content. The problem is that it's dealt with horribly/not at all. Even if we show Rachel is uncomfortable and powerless, she doesn't seem disturbed.
Idk. Wtf
Content Warnings
Graphic: Trafficking and Adult/minor relationship
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