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A review by minsessed
Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst
1.0
My major gripe with this book is that the blurb is misleading. It's not that the things detailed in the blurb don't happen, they do, it's that they're such a small part of the general nothingburger that is this book.
While I do not like to criticize how people respond or react to racism especially in its more covert forms, the premise of this book sets you up for rage and anger and then you get into the book and nothing happens. The letter that supposedly details our main character's experience in her work place and her anger about it all, only gets about 15 pages towards the halfway mark and then it's not discussed again up until the very end of the book.
I wanted to see discussions about race, racism, sexism and all it's intersectionality in our mc's experience as a gay, black woman who's place and ideas in media are always dismissed as being "too Black." This book had all the ingredients to be something amazing and instead we got 70% that just followed Mickey running around with her childhood situationship while ignoring her girlfriend of 5 years lol.
The ending further upset me because nothing is actually resolved. It just made an already bad book have an even worse ending and I hated it.
While I do not like to criticize how people respond or react to racism especially in its more covert forms, the premise of this book sets you up for rage and anger and then you get into the book and nothing happens. The letter that supposedly details our main character's experience in her work place and her anger about it all, only gets about 15 pages towards the halfway mark and then it's not discussed again up until the very end of the book.
I wanted to see discussions about race, racism, sexism and all it's intersectionality in our mc's experience as a gay, black woman who's place and ideas in media are always dismissed as being "too Black." This book had all the ingredients to be something amazing and instead we got 70% that just followed Mickey running around with her childhood situationship while ignoring her girlfriend of 5 years lol.
The ending further upset me because nothing is actually resolved. It just made an already bad book have an even worse ending and I hated it.