I present to you a recap of all the books I read last year
I play waterpolo and it's a pretty aggressive and contact heavy sport. It's no football but still. I've been thinking does Gordon Korman know that, is the point that it's an outlet for aggression or did he just chose a random sport he knows nothing about and do no research.
Hey r u still in the master minds fandom?
it's complicated i guess, It's definitely not my main fandom but I have so many thoughts on those books.
teehee, hello! I'm a huge masterminds enjoyer, so its so nice to see other people in the fandom. Anyhow, I was wondering if you had a favourite scene, or character?
Hey sorry for taking so long to respond people being nice on the internet is intimidating for some reason lol. I don't know about scenes but character wise Amber.
MASTERMINDS OH MY GOD. I was obsessed with those books for so long i read them all like twenty times you dont even know
Wait really I thought it was just me I only read the first one as I kid but I read it a million times
Amber has like I minor eating disorder or something right. I skinny 13 year old should not be watching her weight. They fully restricted these kids media access but didn't mange to take out the parts of it that push unhealthy body standards. The watsonain explanation was that project Osiris was created by people who where not very smart.
In all serious this is the one part of the series that actually bugs me. It definitely normalizes some messed up stuff. If they called attention to it or made it part of her character arc it could have been really interesting.
Guys Amber Masterminds would be such a good character if she was written better
I am healing my child you guys have to hear more about masterminds by Gorden Korman.
These books are so close to having interesting moral dilemmas but so far. They are a bit to wrapped up in the idea of legality as morality they try to break free from this but never mange to fully untangle them. They also want the characters to feel bad about doing stuff but refuse to let them willingly do the wrong thing. I think this works for Amber because it's kind of her deal but just doesn't really fit with the other characters.
also Amber is the best character and I have way more thoughts on her that I will try to organize into disjointed tumblr posts later.
Also she and Tori should kiss
In summery masterminds is a book series why they try to clone criminals instead of putting there resources to actual prison reform that would help people
When you stop reading mediocre middle grade fiction you forget how prevalent the forced heterosexual pairing up of the characters is.