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In the early 20th century colonial India, young beautiful Anglo-Indian girl Queenie, who easily passes for white, lives with her caring Indian mother and stepfather.
However, the local British aristocracy considers her tainted and often makes her life miserable. Her stepfather works as a sax player in the local elite British club which pays so well that his family can afford to enjoy the typical western upper middle class lifestyle.
Unfortunately, Queenie's life is anything but easy and it's only getting harder. She's constantly bullied at the local British school for girls she attends by her racist female peers. The old creepy pastor who teaches the girls religion as well as English offers her some private lessons.
Racially charged riots break out and her family's home is attacked. Corrupt racist British official and dirty old man Sir Burton Rumsey blackmails her for sex after he catches her stepfather with his socialite wife. Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to fiction, contemporary lovers.
Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Home Downloads Free Downloads Queenie pdf. Read Online Download. Related Books Hot Free as in Freedom 2. Queenie wasn't getting off on it either - she tells her friends that she never experienced an orgasm with anyone. The sex was sad and gross and violent in a one-sided and definitely not sexy way. But it is important to the story to know just how awful Queenie's encounters were, and how she overlooked how bossy and demeaning her sex partners were verbally, to contrast with how she spun these encounters to herself afterward and to establish a pattern.
Tania It was actually directly answered. She talked to Kyazike about it and the therapist. It's from her mother's relationships with men and the violence of …more It was actually directly answered. It's from her mother's relationships with men and the violence of her stepfather. See all 15 questions about Queenie….
Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Queenie. Feb 20, Emily May rated it really liked it Shelves: , contemporary , arc. He put a hand on my thigh and moved it higher, digging his nails into my skin.
That'll be a pair of tights gone. This book is a bit deceiving. Queenie is such a funny and lovable character, with what I think of as a very British sense of humour. The book opens with multiple scenes that made me laugh and the author quickly builds up a warm and hilarious dynamic between Queenie and her girlfriends "the Corgis" , and between Queenie and her Jamaican grandparents. This is everything I would have He put a hand on my thigh and moved it higher, digging his nails into my skin.
This is everything I would have expected from a book being compared to Bridget Jones's Diary. Which is why I feel like I need to issue a warning: this book goes to some really dark places. Bridget Jones is klutzy and embarrassing; Queenie is a far more complex and real character. She is dealing with mental health issues and a post-relationship breakdown.
The decisions she makes - like having unprotected sex with lots of different men - are clearly not healthy. I know some readers will feel frustrated with her behaviour at times, but I also think the author never portrays it as a good thing, and instead honestly portrays a young woman dealing with severe anxiety in the only way she feels she can.
I think it's a good example of some very serious issues being wrapped up in a book that is full of humour to balance out the sadness. Queenie has just broken up with her long-term boyfriend Tom, who is white. Through flashbacks, we soon learn that their relationship was pretty messed up from the start, with Tom refusing to defend her against his family's casual racism. Queenie doesn't see it that way, though. This break-up has hit her hard. Carty-Williams explores dating, anxiety and racism through the eyes of a modern-day Jamaican Brit, and she does it all with a sense of humour and no aversion to cringe factor.
Oversharing at inappropriate moments, dating disasters, and witty badass girlfriends are just some of the sources of hilarity in this book. I think the serious issues are actually more impactful because of their juxtaposition with the humour and friendship. No, this isn't another Bridget Jones's Diary , but then we're not living in the 90s anymore either. Queenie is bolder, more complicated, more diverse and - ultimately - more feminist. And I see nothing to complain about in that.
Blog Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube View all 52 comments. Jul 01, Roxane rated it really liked it. This is the kind of novel whose excellence sneaks up on you. The beginning is kind of rocky and I wasn't sure where the book was going but then it gets great and unputdownable and I held my breath reading as fast as I could to see what would happen to Queenie.
This is an amazing novel about what it means to be a black girl whose world is falling apart and needs to find the strength to put it back together. There is so much ground covered here from dealing with anxiety and self-loathing to compli This is the kind of novel whose excellence sneaks up on you. There is so much ground covered here from dealing with anxiety and self-loathing to complicated families and learning to let go of things and people that won't serve you well.
And Queenie is the kind of narrator you cannot help but root for even as she makes infuriating choices. Wonderful, wonderful novel full of charm and wit and warmth and energy. Check it out. View all 19 comments.
Mar 04, J. Greene rated it it was ok. This review was removed. View all comments. Feb 23, Cindy rated it liked it. I empathized a lot with the protagonist and her struggles along with the portrayal of mental health, including the cultural stigma of seeking therapy, how childhood affects the way we treat relationships, how we internalize racism and learn to love ourselves as a WOC, etc.
The audiobook narrator also did a great job at bringing the story to life. I struggle to emotionally connect with this book as much as I should, mainly because the progression of the narrative felt disjointed.
I wish the two had been better interwoven together for a more nuanced portrayal rather than a grand revelation towards the end.
View all 6 comments. Sadly it was not my cup of tea for a few reasons. Firstly the good things about the book are the writing, especially the natural dialogue, and the fact that Queenie does get that mental health care that she so desperately needs.
However as a whole this book is based on too many black women stereotypes. I really feel the author should have toned that down. I'm also not enjoying that this book is being pitched as Queenie is the newest debut sensation coming out of the UK by Candace Carte-Williams. I'm also not enjoying that this book is being pitched as the black Bridget Jones Diary. These two books aren't alike at all.
Queen was not a comedy for me. I feel like it's an exploration of how a black woman watching abuse as a child and being abused affect her choices of men later on. The book's concentration on Queenie's promiscuous lifestyle, at times was hard to read and certainly was not funny. I would even say it could be triggering to some readers. Since the book is being pitched as humorous in the UK I had to ask myself who the target audience is supposed to be.
The author doesn't seem to disagree with that pitch because I haven't seen her say the contrary. I also feel the cover was another way to attract black women to want to read Queen, although knowing what's in between the covers, I believe many black women would pass on it. I don't recommend it. View all 32 comments. Mar 27, Nilufer Ozmekik rated it it was amazing.
As soon as I started this book, I thought I was having a light reading. Because the book is advertised as modern version of Bridget Jones. But after a few pages later, I realized this is deeper, more heart wrenching, darker and twisted story of a young woman who is looking for a tree branch to not fall down from a cliff! This is su 5 shiny, rebellious, beautiful stars! This is such a beginning of domino falling!
But the breakup is the first wake up call which pushes her make so many wrong decisions about meaningless one night stands. Finally she understands that she was already lost from the beginning. She never thinks she deserves to be loved or she deserves good things in life. Sometimes you hate Queenie, sometimes you feel sorry for her but mostly you understand her! I really enjoyed her story and this is a great debut!
I love to read the upcoming book of this writer! View all 8 comments. Apr 26, Rincey rated it liked it Shelves: poc-author. I had really conflicted feelings the entire time while reading this book, but I will say that it completely sucked me in and I found it completely compelling, even though I basically spent the entire book wanting to yell at Queenie. View all 3 comments.
Shelves: popsugar-reading-challenge , june-reads , 1-star-books , aty-challenge. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. She is depicted as lazy, promiscuous, desperate, and broke. The first chapter was fine and then the rest was just awful. A lot of the reviews I have seen are talking about Queenie being a hot mess.
Either that or angry black women. But you teach people how to treat you and she was letting anyone treat her anyway that they would like. The way that the story is framed is problematic from the start because she is heartbroken about her boyfriend who is making her move out of their shared apartment. Her New Year's Resolutions are about being nicer to people and getting back with Tom. She literally has let people use her like a doormat. I understand the Jamaican against therapy thing.
Reading this was traumatizing. Every sentence seems to denigrate her. Writing in her notebook is soiling it, throwing some glitter on her face instead of taking care of herself. She is off for a long holiday and she just binges and cleans up after other people. Slipping the black lives matter stuff in this narrative feels so forced. The author alludes to Queenie being overlooked at work because she is black. She has a full-on hour argument with one of her dates after going home with him about racism.
For one sentence. Why bother give an explanation at all if you are going to gloss over it? It can hardly be surmised that a person will steer clear of an entire race of people because childhood trauma with one person.
I mean, come on. Characters: Cassandra is a bad friend Seriously asking if a restaurant is black enough and you make her the voice of reason who then turns her back on Queenie for sleeping with her boyfriend.
But we are just accepting this. It happens so close to the end of the book that it just feels like lazy writing and further evidence that Queenie has no respect for herself. Darcy is the only work friend who is not awful and yet we get no character development for her. She is simply a non-problematic foil for Queenie. Tom is awful for the aforementioned reasons see paragraph 3 , Ted is a married man with a pregnant wife who has sex with Queenie in the office toilets and then hounds her until he finally corners her to talk to her and then writes her a letter demanding that she not tell his wife.
Adi fetishizes her body and has sex with her and then bad mouths her in front of his wife in the street. Courtney, the guy Queenie goes on a date with after she starts therapy, is an all lives matter guy who believes in reverse racism.
Even Sid the drummer has difficulty with understanding the word no. What is this? The Ending Everything just get wrapped up; which Queenie literally recounts in the bathroom mirror at the end of the book. I am at a lot for words as to why this was so well received. This book is an embarrassment. This book is a dangerous thing. This book could have been something that black women could read and feel inspired to change and grow and soar.
Apr 07, Lisa rated it it was ok. A tiresome novel that made me cranky. Everything about Queenie screams middle school angst. Queenie and her crew think and act like 12 year olds trapped in 25 year old bodies.
Take away some of the sex, replace their jobs with 7th grade classes and you have the tedious dramas of adolescence. I liked the clever use of texts. That's about it. View all 23 comments. Zoe Totally agree! Also I thought itnsas apallingly written. The author writes as though the reader is an idiot who cannot understand subtext.
Aisha Muhammad Saad Totally understand where this is coming from but Queenie's more than a middle school angst depending on the perspective one's reading from. Totally understand where this is coming from but Queenie's more than a middle school angst depending on the perspective one's reading from. Mar 01, Book of the Month added it. A few years ago, I created a competition offering up my cottage to an aspiring writer in need of time and space to complete their project.
Candice was the first winner, chosen from more than applicants. She had never driven outside London before, and it took her six hours to make a two hour journey the kind of thing that would happen to her character, Queenie! Fast forward two and a half years; Queenie is one of the most anticipated books of the year. Queenie is fresh and flawed and she made me wince and made me laugh and made me think.
Candice is a unique writer.
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