I feel like the age gap couple cannot last. Not because of the age gap but bc they had like negative chemistry, something I did not know was possible prior to their book. unsure how the mind behind hollanov could create…that.
ehhh you know i think it’s terrible and also i think people are maybe expecting too much from reid in that these are like. something she wrote for fun at night after her day job and her family life and i don’t even think she was trying to like create an insanely erotic work i think she just was sort of playing around, and romance novel publishers pay so little for books like 5-7k a pop that they will publish almost anything especially from an established author because it’s low risk. basically i think a lot of this is sort of like if everyone started critiquing my notes app drafts i write on the bus for fun. they’re not good. but they aren’t really intended to be viewed by a huge audience and definitely not a huge audience removed from the original context in which they were created. so yeah it’s bad but i also don’t think it’s fair to consider it all a reflection of like, reid’s creative capacity and artistic intelligence or something. these were her farmers market watercolors she was selling for $5 and then sotheby’s swept in and now vulture is writing pieces about her derivative understanding of color. like by all means i think it’s fair to call out racist and sexist and transphobic and homophobic aspects but i see people getting on her about the quality of the work and it just always feels like being annoyed that a soccer team bake sale isn’t providing michelin star level baked goods. sometimes the rice crispies are bomb sometimes the cookies are undersalted that’s how it goes.
