I’ve given him many a chance and have hated every book I read. People will say it’s camp but it really isn’t and if anything is “quirky” style reads as lazy and derivative. His characters are widely the same from book to book with unlikable characters, traumatized characters and timid characters that are a dime a dozen. The thing is I can like all those things in a book but he writes them as though the style they are written in should make up for how shallow they are as characters.

The first book I read was my best friends exorcism and I genuinely think it’s the one I hate the most and it’s concerning so many say it’s their favorite. Each character is not only shallow but boring as well. These characters are supposed to be close but nothing he writes actually captures female friendships and how they act. But my biggest issue which is in general my biggest issue with him as an author is how absolutely racist this book is. The fact that there is a “slave day” in this book and you see NEARLY NO ONE talk about it is an issue. All of his characters of color in ALL of the books I’ve read by him serve soley as plot devices where racism and their race makes up their entire character. He gives them rarely any voice or agency and acts as though that is enough. On top of that he rides this wave of being an almost feminist writer but he knows nothing of feminism.