jeroen reviewed Crosshairs by Catherine Hernandez
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1 star
The plot was pretty unoriginal and pretty thin. There's a natural disaster allowing a terribly conservative government to grab power and then all of a sudden minorities can't use their bank cards anymore. I can only assume Hernandez loves The Handmaid's Tale very much.
Also I was troubled by the assumption that white people are somehow biologically burdened with evil and anyone else is not. Quote: 'It forced Bahadur and me into a place of ease, of witnessing, of relaxing while folks processed their allyship. It felt foreign to us to not have to bear this burden. Foreign and delicious.'
Finally the finale felt very rushed and too easy. There's a demonstration planned to unmask the evil government at an international meeting. And it all unfolds in just a few pages and somehow it all works out and everyone is happy..
The plot was pretty unoriginal and pretty thin. There's a natural disaster allowing a terribly conservative government to grab power and then all of a sudden minorities can't use their bank cards anymore. I can only assume Hernandez loves The Handmaid's Tale very much.
Also I was troubled by the assumption that white people are somehow biologically burdened with evil and anyone else is not. Quote: 'It forced Bahadur and me into a place of ease, of witnessing, of relaxing while folks processed their allyship. It felt foreign to us to not have to bear this burden. Foreign and delicious.'
Finally the finale felt very rushed and too easy. There's a demonstration planned to unmask the evil government at an international meeting. And it all unfolds in just a few pages and somehow it all works out and everyone is happy..