• WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
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      12 hours ago

      I mean… if you think “the walls were covered in a weird glowing moss, giving the an area an strange glow,” is writing worth your time, go nuts.

      In the first 50 pages the protagonist has a “boss fight” with a mentally ill woman of color, against her will, and murders her. I thought maybe the author was setting up some BIG THEMES but nah, just video game lulz. If the book actually had anything to SAY about human vulnerability transformed into spectacle, I could maybe respect it, but the author simply doesn’t have the chops or the courage to really examine that in any sincere or meaningful way.