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harriyanna's review against another edition
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currently reading and omg its ASS.
update. finished it and i am not even trying to be funny when i say this but this is the worst book i read all year.
i legit don't know where to begin and i am in the process of making a video about this on my channel. but there is just so many thing things WRONG with this book, from the confusing point of view, scenes thrown in here for shock value, so much of nothing happening, the constant change of location, the story going back and forth between first and third person story telling, racist mess, homophobic mess, some transphobic mess, misogynistic mess, and dull and annoying characters.
i wasn't a fan of its writing style because it was giving middle grade in terms of the simplicit sentences, but it was clearly for an adult audience because of the subject matter and the explicit language. this book wrote the models to be dizty and i am over people having this notion that models (and women in the public eye because of their looks) are stupid.
also! naomi campbell didn't even write this! the ghost writer was a white women and it showed because of the way the book talks about and handles blackness. she constantly put emphasis on the characters of color's backgrounds, used a biracial slur, and pulled from tired offensive tropes to write them. overall, the ghost writer did not see poc outside of their race.
i try to keep my opinions on celebrities to a minimum because i do not know these people but fuck.....naomi campbell legit did not care about this book. she didn't even read it so i doubt she is even aware of how ass it is. at the end of the day her fans bought it because her name was slapped on it and she made her bag from this trash.
i try to give some grace when i read books i do not like but this one was a hard NO. i can see why it's not in print anymore. don't waste your time reading on the archive.
update. finished it and i am not even trying to be funny when i say this but this is the worst book i read all year.
i legit don't know where to begin and i am in the process of making a video about this on my channel. but there is just so many thing things WRONG with this book, from the confusing point of view, scenes thrown in here for shock value, so much of nothing happening, the constant change of location, the story going back and forth between first and third person story telling, racist mess, homophobic mess, some transphobic mess, misogynistic mess, and dull and annoying characters.
i wasn't a fan of its writing style because it was giving middle grade in terms of the simplicit sentences, but it was clearly for an adult audience because of the subject matter and the explicit language. this book wrote the models to be dizty and i am over people having this notion that models (and women in the public eye because of their looks) are stupid.
also! naomi campbell didn't even write this! the ghost writer was a white women and it showed because of the way the book talks about and handles blackness. she constantly put emphasis on the characters of color's backgrounds, used a biracial slur, and pulled from tired offensive tropes to write them. overall, the ghost writer did not see poc outside of their race.
i try to keep my opinions on celebrities to a minimum because i do not know these people but fuck.....naomi campbell legit did not care about this book. she didn't even read it so i doubt she is even aware of how ass it is. at the end of the day her fans bought it because her name was slapped on it and she made her bag from this trash.
i try to give some grace when i read books i do not like but this one was a hard NO. i can see why it's not in print anymore. don't waste your time reading on the archive.
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