lizbee | For those who were curious

The Quarter Storm ended with the heroine basically going, "Yes, the entire institution of the NOPD is corrupt, and my cop ex-boyfriend is a bigot and a bully, but he's also a poor little meow meow and I love him."

And, like, people are complicated and I certainly don't want to whitesplain to a Black author how she should write about the police, but I had trouble discerning any redeeming qualities in that character. So I'm not gonna keep going with the series, the cognitive dissonance was too much.

Am now reading the new Watergate book, and have so far concluded that (a) Nixon was extremely on the spectrum, not the representation we need but the representation we deserve, etc; (b) it is a crime that there is no film about the Chennault Affair starring Michelle Yeoh; (c) Henry Kissinger is not a good person. Groundbreaking, I know.