Starting today with the Meme Corner cause it needs to be said...I am not rooting for all Black writers!!!! Not when some of y’all are intent on disappointing us like this.

We need to start handing out reading assignments before book deals!!! Cause some of these recent Black novelists/memoirists are missing the mark because they aren't studying the work that precedes them. Before she quit her day job, I would've loved to see this author take a look at Danielle Evans’ novella to get a model for workplace stories that humanize coons, Raven Leilani's Luster to learn how to write about Black women in interracial relationships with boring white men without boring your readers, and the critiques of Morgan Jerkins' memoir to understand why people are tired of y'all cranking out these oreo sob stories with no reflection. We are not 14 anymore!!! And what sort of opportunistic, mental gymnastics do you have to do to be a grown adult thinking Angela Davis and Viola Davis are your patron saints for standing up to passive-aggressive white women supervisors?!

All of these characters (including Nella!) were just terrible, and I hate books where you can't root for anyone. The genrebending isn't a defensible excuse for this lazy characterization--as far as I'm concerned, the only horror element of this book was how badly it failed at sampling the Jordan Peele cinematic universe and that Lena Waithe hair movie. The only satire was me being a fool and sticking around until the last chapter. And outside of my gripes about the annoying characters, this was poorly written and edited. Why did everything happen in the last three chapters?!? No pacing in sight.

In summary, I finished this book weeks ago and was too over it to do a full recap/GR update. It's not worth a full hate review, and wouldn't have been worth a listen either if I actually paid for the audiobook. I don't actually recommend but if you too have a thing for hatereads/trainwrecks, be my guest!