i tried to read this and it was the worst thing ever i had to stop reading it. nothing about what this 'writer' has to say was interesting in the least.
there are literally parts of this that also had the message that girls are not good at math, but men? men are great at math! i know there are tw/cw but this? this is the definition of 'toxic' to me because it's just close enough to real-life thinking that i consider it really harmful especially as it doesn't get called out as often as more important/serious tw/cw. putting down girls' skill in stem should be called out loudly. of course, i know some women are bad at math and that's fine! but it doesn't need to be characterised as if the woman is empty-headed like it was in this tripe
i'm glad i stopped reading this because another reader apparently read more and had this to say about this dire content that gets to be called a book these days-
'in the female character's many quirky internal monologues, she complains of some of the male character's "mansplaining." conversely, she is daunted by the fact that the male character even has his master's and phd in mathematics (a subject she certainly thinks that she can't possibly understand, with an almost 'silly me' attitude, as in 'i can't do math.') this reminded me of the barbie doll in the early 90s who thought that math class was tough. have we not progressed since then? in another internal monologue, she wonders silently if one of the male's characters' colleagues might be so educated as to know how to do long division. i had to stop there.'
