By Zen DiPietro

Read as part of the Monthly Keyword Reading Challenge back in March. I was lazy about reviewing this one.
Available on: Amazon and Kobo.
Overview:
Blurb: Having his bedroom filed with contraband by his ever-so-wonderful sister is the least of his problems.
Trigger Warnings:
Questionable Morals
Body Count: 0
The Specs:
- Series
- Series Name:
- Book Number:
- Genre
- Technical Genre: 45-Minute Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Reads, 45-Minute Literature & Fiction Short Reads, Science Fiction Adventure
- Theo Genre
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- Publication information:
- Paperback page count: 25 pages/3,979 KB for ebook.
- Publisher: Parallel Worlds Press
- Language: English
- ASIN: B073RW2C1G
Other Fun Stuff:
To Read or Not To Read (Again):
Donated
Rating out of five: 2.5 out of 5
Representation, Morality, and Sexism Tests:
- Bechdel–Wallace Test:
- Purpose: to establish actual female characters that act independently of male characters in a story.
- Do two female characters talk about something other than a male character? Yes
- Pass or Fail: Pass
- Purpose: to establish actual female characters that act independently of male characters in a story.
- DuVernay Test:
- Purpose: to establish characters of color in a story.
- Are there fully actualized characters of color? No
- Pass or Fail: Fail
- Purpose: to establish characters of color in a story.
- Ellen Willis Test:
- Purpose: to show balance in characters regardless of gender.
- Would two related characters still work to carry the story if their genders were reversed? Yes
- Pass or Fail: Pass
- Purpose: to show balance in characters regardless of gender.
- Hays Code Test:
- Purpose: to ignore outdated and queer-degrading/punishing standards that once were the standard for produced mass media.
- Part One: outdated moral guidelines
- Are there any outdated “moral content” rules gloriously kicked in the teeth by this story?
- Are there people of color allowed a happy ending?
- Is there an interracial couple?
- Is there profanity used at all?
- Is there one or more homicidal acts and/or murder?
- Part Two: queer representation
- Are there queer characters that get a happy ending?
- Is there an illegal or otherwise distasteful age gap between characters, queer or otherwise?
- Do the queer characters die tragically, violently, or at all?
- Pass or Fail: Fail
- Mako Mori Test:
- Purpose: to assure that in the story there is at least one female character independent of a male character’s story.
- Is there a female character? Yes
- Does she get her own arc? Yes
- Does it do anything other than serve to support a man’s story? Yes
- Pass or Fail: Pass
- Purpose: to assure that in the story there is at least one female character independent of a male character’s story.
- Sexy Lamp Test:
- Purpose: to assure that a female character in the story serves as an active protagonist, not just a device to be used by the male main character.
- Would the plot fall apart if the female character was replaced by a sexy looking lamp? Yes
- Post-It Note Caveat:
- Would the character be able to be replaced by a Sexy Lamp with a sticky note on it for information conveyance? NO
- Pass or Fail: Pass
- Purpose: to assure that a female character in the story serves as an active protagonist, not just a device to be used by the male main character.
- Tauriel Test:
- Purpose: to help support the existence of competent, independent female characters regardless of a romantic sub-plot.
- Is there at least one woman in the story?
- Is this woman competent in her chosen occupation and not immediately shown up by a newcomer male character?
- If she has or develops a love interest during the story, either implied or explicitly stated, does she suddenly abandon her job and/or chosen path to support or pursue said love interest?
- Pass or Fail: Pass
- Purpose: to help support the existence of competent, independent female characters regardless of a romantic sub-plot.
- Vito Russo Test:
- Purpose: to establish more characters that are on the SAGA (Sexuality And Gender Acceptance), QTPOC (Queer and Trans People of Color) or LGBTQIAP+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual/Biromantic/Bigender, Transgender, Queer/Genderqueer, Intersex, Asexual/Aromantic/Agender, Pansexual/Panromantic, and others not listed here) spectrum.
- Is there a character on the queer spectrum?
- Are they a character beyond their orientation?
- Do they actually affect the plot?
- Is the character something beyond a punchline?
- Pass or Fail: Fail
- Purpose: to establish more characters that are on the SAGA (Sexuality And Gender Acceptance), QTPOC (Queer and Trans People of Color) or LGBTQIAP+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual/Biromantic/Bigender, Transgender, Queer/Genderqueer, Intersex, Asexual/Aromantic/Agender, Pansexual/Panromantic, and others not listed here) spectrum.
Overall review:
Thoughts:
An interesting little romp that I would love to read more of; a decent short but it felt more like a scene than a full story itself.
Was it engaging?
Yes
Review format updated 5 March 2019
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