#whereas this FMC treats them in a hospital

[weirdsociology]

so Lights Out is pretty well written but it is... giving the most booktok white woman perspective imaginable. it tries to avoid being ableist and succeeds only in being vastly more ableist than if it had just let things be. and it has the Nurse thing. you know, the Nurse thing. where Nurses are in the profession because it's obviously a way to exert control over other people in a socially sanctioned way. it's terrifying how she thinks of herself and her patients but that is not at all meant to be the scary part of the book.

now i'm not finished and if it turns out the FMC comes to the realization that "hey turns out i'm a sociopath too just using my powers for 'good' in a medical context" a la Dexter then actually that's a neat way to do a character and i'll take it all back. but it seems. unlikely at best.