In the Blood

In the Blood

2014 • 352 pages

Ratings8

Average rating3.8

15

If you're looking for a very obvious mystery that, in its ignorance of mental illness, wildly stigmatizes whole groups of people, look no further. I cannot believe how frequently psychosis is conflated with psychopathy in this dumb book. How misinformed and dangerous.

Some veryyyyyy tough gender stuff in here as well — seems like it was written in 1980 and not 2014.

Lastly, whenever an author describes their protagonist as brilliant but does not themselves have the intelligence/skill to portray it, and you're left with a bog standard character who supposedly has a turbo-genius IQ....it's embarrassing.

September 20, 2022