Rise of Gods
2016 • 429 pages

Ratings12

Average rating4.2

15

DNF.
The book introduced about 5 different points of views in the first 50 pages or so. The moment I thought I was kind of understanding things, we got a whole new group. Just too many things happened too fast.
Another issue is, I am just not super interested in the teenage girl protagonist. She is kind of... I don't know? Typical teenage girl protagonist? Not confident, quirky, has a super special life, but also everyone adores her.
At last, there was something that made me uncomfortable. At one point we get introduced to a kind of retirement home for mentally ill people who are also poor. It's a charity of sorts. The way the staff there is portrayed was... odd. They discussed the patients constantly, often right in front of said patients, calling them names and such. It was all light-hearted, but that's just not cool. Plus, one of the people working there is this big, burly gay man. We get told he is super huge and strong, he threatens people who are homophobic with physical violence (nice thing to do among legitimately mentally ill people, I am sure they never do or say weird shit because their brain is literally shutting down...), then he goes and REPEATEDLY sexually harasses an (as far as we know) straight dude half his size by badgering him constantly about having sex with him.
He also discusses the penis of an old male patient who literally can't even communicate and seems only semi-conscious. Not in a medical way either.... He is also super best friends with teenage protagonist girl, so we are supposed to like him.

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