M. H.

This book needed major editing

Revisado: 07-11-22

This book had little to no introduction. It was difficult to get into it. I was very confused for the first half of the book until I realized the premise. I suppose you had to read the prequels. But I didn’t know that. There was def promise in the concept. But I wish it had gone through further editing rounds.

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Poor understanding of New York

Revisado: 05-16-22

This story reads like a California resident wrote about New York the way one would experience LA. It was very poorly conceptualized. I wish the author had spoken to people from Brooklyn and New York before writing this or had someone who was born/raised in NYC aid in editing because this book feeds off of tropes and misconceptions made by white people in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Much like the sex and the city characters or friends characters. They use “Brooklyn” as if it’s a slur or a bad thing, when in fact there is a lot of pride for your borough. NYC is so much more than bad stereotypes and poor understandings of geography.

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Propagandist literature

Revisado: 11-22-21

Before delving into this review, I’ll give a background on myself. I’m a public policy specialist. I love romance/Rom-Coms/chick lit but there is a way to tell a romance about people in “opposing” fields without using moral absolutes. I found it a bit troubling that the author so easily portrayed the SEC as a villainous organization and a financial analyst/hedge funder as a good guy (the female protagonist uses those words to describe the male lead). The author does a major disservice by romanticizing Wall Street brokers and hedge fund types when much if the economic woes in this country are actually the fault of brokers and large financial institutions. We as a nation still have not recovered from the recession of 2007 and there is a massive lack of accountability when it comes to oversight of such institutions. I understand that there are definitely people who abuse their power, but insider trading is very rarely pursued and people are very rarely convicted for financial crimes. The 2007 recession shows us that exactly. This is fiction, yes. But this also romanticizes an industry that is filled with people who do things that morally and ethically wrong. This book tries to white wash the actual bad and show a glorified version of this industry and tried to undermine government entities that attempt to pursue oversight. I wish this book was actually about real accountability without taking moral absolutes. Nothing is morally absolute. Nothing is 100% good. And it’s harmful and a disservice to use a platform such as escapist literature to paint a false narrative that could sway opinions of people. Especially when stocks and trading and investments are not very regulated and plenty of unethical things go on.

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Gross racism

Revisado: 08-06-21

I was very interested in the story. But I could not get over Jules Barnard’s depiction of native women, i.e. Mira. Portraying a native woman as a “man magnet” and jealous is actually a gross racist portrayal of native women as sexual objects. Especially considering more than half of native women will face sexual abuse, especially by non natives (white) men. Native women are also disproportionately murdered/missing. Sexual violence against native women is endemic and widespread.

This story’s narrative only furthers racist tropes. Native women are so rarely depicted in literature and to have native women be depicted thus is gross and negligent and only further perpetuates racist stereotypes and tropes at best and tacitly confines violence against them at worst.

The writing quality was fine. But we are non natives living on native land. Common courtesy and respect would be appreciated.

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