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calamitymeat 's review for:
Blackwood Farm
by Anne Rice
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The first 40% of this was pretty good and was a really interesting ghost story. Then Anne Rice's instincts kick in and she starts getting weird about race. Arguably, this was there from the beginning with the whole "white southern family loves their black workers who have been working with their family for generations", but the weird fetishizing of Jasmine for a brief moment is where I start getting taken out of it. There's also the transphobia. The intersex character's introduction and how she's viewed by the narrator is rough, but it takes a turn for the worst when she rapes the protagonist . Then once again, in usual Anne Rice fashion, there's a 15 year old love interest, incest, Lestat getting shoehorned in, and, of course, more incest.
A guy has sex with his evil ghost twin, which is funny to say, but much less fun to have to sit through as an Anne Rice sex scene.
A guy has sex with his evil ghost twin, which is funny to say, but much less fun to have to sit through as an Anne Rice sex scene.
Graphic: Incest, Transphobia