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A review by shereadytoread
Dead Silent by Ivan Blake, Ivan Blake
Did not finish book. Stopped at 28%.
Disclaimer: I received gifted copies of the first two books in exchange for an honest review.
I read the first book (Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/4402f18f-8fb4-4c19-a65e-d74975cf751e) and decided to go ahead and read the second one in tandem to see if I liked it more.
Unfortunately, it relies on the same tropes that just seem honestly lazy to me. I ended up quitting around halfway through.
Again, it had a few elements that I really like and thought would be interesting. The shock horror theater along with the graverobbing aspect was great. However, we end up with the same tired reliance of the first book on bigotry. Instead of a homophobic town, we find an extremely racist villain. He refers to mexican immigrants as "stupid fence-hoppers" and more. There is also the weird body stuff again (not the graverobbing/dead body stuff). Focus on breasts in these books are ... I don't know what + casual fatphobia throughout.
To have such great elements and then be filled with the laziness of a bigoted villain with no better reasoning for his evil just comes off as lazy and empty.
I read the first book (Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/4402f18f-8fb4-4c19-a65e-d74975cf751e) and decided to go ahead and read the second one in tandem to see if I liked it more.
Unfortunately, it relies on the same tropes that just seem honestly lazy to me. I ended up quitting around halfway through.
Again, it had a few elements that I really like and thought would be interesting. The shock horror theater along with the graverobbing aspect was great. However, we end up with the same tired reliance of the first book on bigotry. Instead of a homophobic town, we find an extremely racist villain. He refers to mexican immigrants as "stupid fence-hoppers" and more. There is also the weird body stuff again (not the graverobbing/dead body stuff). Focus on breasts in these books are ... I don't know what + casual fatphobia throughout.
To have such great elements and then be filled with the laziness of a bigoted villain with no better reasoning for his evil just comes off as lazy and empty.