6/12/2023 0 Comments Carry the ocean by heidi cullinanPlus he has savant like knowledge about everything and the author frequently abuses the autistic stereotype to “infodump” on the reader via Emmett. You know the regular complaint that all autistic characters are white boys who love trains, computers and maths and speak like robots? Well Emmett is exactly that stereotype. The book opens with painting Emmett as the ultimate autistic stereotype. The problem for me is the tone and stereotypes throughout the whole book. Objectively looking at it, I think that it is probably an average gay romance novel. Perhaps my expectations were a bit high and that is what made it seem worse to me than it really was. Which made the disappointment I felt reading it even worse. It is not often you get an autistic main character in a fiction book and it’s even less often you get a gay, autistic main character.
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