There were so many things that felt wrong about this book (pub. in 2013): its racism, its homophobia, fatphobia, the patriarchal and heteronomative relationships.
Of course this novel was full of stereotypes on the Roma. I despised the use of the lexical field of witchcraft (educate yourself on harmful antitsiganist stereotypes). Quite frankly, it baffles me that readers/reviewers never point out the antistiganism in books. I'm quite proud of my Romani ancestry and I wish I could've had grown up with positive representation. I wish people would include the Romani community in their diversity discourses. But, even in such books where the negative and harmful antitsiganist clichés and narratives take so much space, I see barely any review talking about it. And this says so much about people's ignorance, hence the even stronger need for positive representation.