Review: Terrible, racist, demeaning book
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 15, 2013
Ok is the chick that wrote this book a racist herself? I don't know how they do things in South Africa but obviously she knows all about it because she is from South Africa herself and I just got the feeling that how she wrote the book was how she grew up feeling and treating ppl of African descent, disgusting. First of all you can tell she had no love for the heroine because she wrote her as weak and unable to stand up for herself. I know there was a warning about the book being offensive but come on! All the white girls in the book were described as pretty but the heroine is constantly rated as a 5 and being put down, insulted or embarrassed by everyone around her. On top of that she also viewed herself as less than desirable or average looking compared to all the white girls in the book, which is ridiculous. I knew this couldn't have been a woman of color writing another woman of color heroine because if so she would have taken more care.  I really could not finish this book, I am not even a overly sensitive person when it comes to race but I just can not get with something so demeaning, me being black and a woman it was just too much. I got a refund and will not be reading anything else by this author.