kathol reviewed Mr. Parnassus' Heim für magisch Begabte by TJ Klune
Only a cosy bedside story if you ignore everything
1 star
I'm sorry, but I just don't want to read any more books in which the main character is made fun of from the very first sentence. Where every sentence is an insult to idiosyncrasies and where power imbalances are used as a joke. I didn't get past the first few chapters.
Now I've read in retrospect what the book is based on (inspired by the Sixties Scoop). And thus, another even stronger no. How does one come up with the idea of writing something like that? The story is not cosy, treatment of the main character is not cosy, the background story is so much not cosy.
I'm sorry, but I just don't want to read any more books in which the main character is made fun of from the very first sentence. Where every sentence is an insult to idiosyncrasies and where power imbalances are used as a joke. I didn't get past the first few chapters.
Now I've read in retrospect what the book is based on (inspired by the Sixties Scoop). And thus, another even stronger no. How does one come up with the idea of writing something like that? The story is not cosy, treatment of the main character is not cosy, the background story is so much not cosy.
