BOOK REVIEW: The Children of Darkness by David Litwack

                                                 BOOK REVIEW


            The Children of Darkness

             by
        
       David Litwack

     

Midnights_Darling -The Emo Kittie's 

Midnights_Darling -The Emo Kittie rated a book 3 of 5 stars The Children of Darkness (Seekers #1) by David Litwack (Goodreads Author) read in September, 2015

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I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway that was hosted by the author. I was pretty excited upon receiving the email I had won it. I am a avid reader of all Dystopia books and this sounded great. The Children of Darkness, by David Litwack , wasn't the typical Dystopia I prefer to read. My excitement to read this book quickly wavered once I reached the third/fourth chapter. It started off slow, slower than what I normally consider tolerable for the start of a book. Thoughts on the story and characters. Nathaniel, Orah and Thomas were nice characters, but, at times they annoyed me. I think it had a lot to do with how the author created the structure of how they communicated with one another. Examples Orah to Nathaniel " Nathaniel of Little Pond, I think this may work" The vicors to Orah " Orah of Little Pond who's name means Light" They spoke like this through out the book and it highly annoyed me. The book is set in the future in a modest community where there is no cars or electronics in the world, I felt the way the backdrop of the town and the attire of how the characters where described to dress felt medieval. I feel the author would of been better not making it a dystopia and setting it back in a medieval time instead. I'm not going to lie, I did struggle reading this due to these minor factors. I would of much rather it as a adventure novel. There were times when I really enjoyed this book and would start to think okay this is going to get really good, something major is about to happen, but nothing too drastic ever happen and....That disappointed me. The author would build and build a scene up and then BAMB nothing too exciting ended up happening. There was also a lot of wondering through the woods that also annoyed me. The conversation between the characters wasn't enough to carry the story either. They did have a nice friendship but nothing rememberable. I did want to like this book. BELIEVE ME I DID! But there was so many times I was let down with it. I gave the book 3/5 simply because the story line was good but it lacked in other areas.

Enter the world of Magic Mike XXL Double Standard Society for Male and Female strippers

Magic Mike XXL is flooding every social media sight at the moment, the latest crazes don’t normally bother me but I noticed something the other day or for me had a huge eye opener in todays double standard society. It’s a big known fact at the moment woman are campaigning for equality, you may have heard of the ‘Free The Nipple’ campaign? and now It’s a movie. Celebrities have even gotten involved in supporting it; such as Miley Cyrus, Lena Dunham,Michelle Rodriguez,Caitlin Stasey ,Scout Willis,Joe Jonas and Cara Delevingne have all been spotted wearing the signature ‘Free The Nipple’ Tee Shirt. 

 

Now about the Magic Mike film, basic rundown It’s about a bunch of male strippers dancing provocative for woman on a stage while taking and stripping their clothes down to nothing.Am I right? Okay yeah that’s fine what ever you find entertaining.I’m open to watching anything! 95% of the worlds female population find Channing Tatum, in particular very sexy and are loving the fact he in on stage strutting his stuff and getting naked.

 ’ve seen not one bad comment from girls or guys for that matter dissing the male stripper profession but instead praising it and woman tagging their girlfriend's in post wanting to organize a girls night out to go to a night club where male strippers will be performing and guys replying with “You Go Girls!!”.Twitter and Instagram  are flooded with photos of Channing and is fellow male strippers with the he’s so sexy written down below in the comments and a thousand emoji’s with faces popping with hearts,blowing kisses,tongues wagging and lipstick emoji’s all over the post from people.Since in resents months it was made known that instagram does not allow the ‘ female body’ to be shown topless; claiming it is “instances of abuse” and breaches Instagram guidelines to post such a thing and your account get’s deleted; just take a look at Scout Willis who was banded and lets not forget the photographer that took a photos of herself on her period and posted a picture of her laying down with blood seeping through her grey pants was also banded. FYI I have researched this woman and found the photos and they were done very tastefully. She should be proud of herself for them.Shame on Instagram.

 

Why is it okay for men to appear shirtless uploading photo’s of “Just been to the gym”, but when a woman takes a picture of herself in her bra just for the fact that hey I’m a girls, I have nice boobs, I’m wearing a pretty bra and I feel sexy; is her being a slut? Why is this okay? Why are woman okay with this? But in the same sense woman are the first ones to bring each other down, so when I say “she looks like a slut for taking that picture” it’s 99% of the time a woman writing the comment below. Why do we do it to ourselves when he should be banding together and helping each other out and fighting for the right to be able to take a topless photo of ourselves.You ask why do we want to take a photo of ourselves topless? So we can be free and as a woman have the same rights as men. Men did it? so why can’t woman? 80 years ago it was provocative and shameful for men to appear shirtless but they banded together,fought for their rights and achieved the outcome they wanted. Woman however struggle to say a nice comment about each other; if it were a female strippers photo uploaded the comments would be nothing of the good kind.There would be endless hate.  

                Justine beiber posted a photo of himself on Instagram in the nude leaving nothing to the imagination and his followers where nothing but pleased. Kim Kardashion also last week uploaded a less revealing photo of herself onto Instagram and the public wasn't pleased.

Kim and Justine are household names and known fame whores, especially Kim.But, that does not mean Kim should be put down for this photo and Justine praised for his. In my opinion Justine's photo looks like your typical rich kids enjoying a view on a yacht.Kim on the other hand looks beautiful and very feminine.It would be a totally different set of comments if she was wearing a bikini top. Literally what is the difference? and don't forget this is coming from a girl, who wears both bra's and bikini tops and I can honestly say, there is nothing. They both do the same job! But the only difference is one acceptable in public.

 

So right now I am asking why is it okay to be a male stripper and for everyone to talk about it like It’s something glamorous  but for a female stripper It’s slutty and cheap and wrong and shameful; shall I go on? Most men hide the fact they go to a strip club; woman, like what I have spoken about above are screaming the roof down about going to one and It’s okay because It’s a male stripper club and It’s okay for them to dance around sexually to earn money, but for woman It’s just plain out wrong.

 

Why is this? It’s a job. Like what we all have to have in society to pay our bills and survive day to day.Female strippers are no different to male ones. They are all dancing sexually, wearing skimping clothes,some wearing only a thong,dancing for the opposite sex’ pleasure all just to make a living.Like the rest of us do every day; their job is just a little different.  Like everyone's else's job, my job is a little different to yours,your father’s job is a little different to yours,his best friends job is a little different to his. We all have a job that is a little different from the rest. It’s what makes the world go around.So I ask why is a male stripper better and classier than a female stripper? Why is it so taboo? .Just think about it for a moment; what if there was no ‘magic Mike’ and instead a movie ‘Magic Megan’ lets just say for laughs is getting filmed about female strippers and what It’s like to be one in a day to day life and the struggles of society puts on them for being one.What if we had that instead? something to makes us all think and stop for a minute. They are people just like us doing their job. We need to stop tearing them down for it and praising the opposite sex for it.  

I appreciate anyone who is going to read this. The reason I created this blog is to post my opinion's and share them with other's and find out how they feel about the subjects I post about. And FYI incase you're wondering I am NOT  a stripper and I have never met one before. 

Peace out world

Midnights Darling

Talked about

Why do people you don't know hate on you?

Is it boredom? A lack of fulfilment in their own life that makes them seek out hurting and belittling  others or is it just plain jealousy? Maybe you have something they want?
The truth is one will never know unless you confront the individual or individual's and as that is It's going to be 50/50 you're gonna get a proper response. You're either going to get a bitter sweet bit of lip or a smack in the mouth.

The problem is we are all looking and responding to it the wrong way. We are reacting how the  'person/people' are wanting us to react and feel. It makes us feel  insecure and maybe feel like outsiders and then those 'rumors'  get around and other people join in on the judging, then you feel like a freak "like what is wrong with me?". "Why can't I fit in?". Then your 'so called' friends start feeding into the rumors and acting different to you and not wanting to hang out or talk or even go as far as to not want to be seen in public and speak to you in front of anyone.

Then all of a sudden your walking down the street and your-once-upon-a-time-friends are now hanging out with the original cultrups that started all the trouble and rumors in the first place.
Firstly before I go on those sort of friends are not worth having-they were never your friends to begin with. So, don't feel like you're suddenly all alone, What ever your age you're going to meet more people get older and have better friends than those ones. So be happy you got them out of your life :)

Anyway.

This is only a short blog post to start my new blog. I've never blogged before would really like to get into it. I'm hoping to talk more about this subject in coming months. Feel free to post below and let me know what you think

xoxo MidnightsDarling