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Feb. 18th, 2016 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday's book I am getting rid of I'm not even going to bother finishing reading.
It is a bit over 4cm thick, 15cm wide, and 23cm tall, and it contains one (1) speaking female character that I ever found.
She's introduced when someone attempts to rape her and every other incident I read after that is about her actions trying to decide who gets to have sex with her and failing. Noncon happens. She runs away from an arranged marriage but gets dragged back to it. And the title protagonist pays a pimp who hits her until she agrees to sex work for survival. But? Somehow? The book ends up a love story??? Where she marries the guy that paid for her? I just read the last bit of the book to see how it ended but I can't think of a way to get there from the beginning that isn't epically creepy.
So I am getting rid of this book.
And hoping the next one I read will wash the first one out.
Also? Even ignoring the gendered epic creep factor, it's just not very good. I mean, I started reading it, had a sleep, then forgot I was already reading a book and sat down to decide what to read next.
If they can't write women well, they just can't write well.
It is a bit over 4cm thick, 15cm wide, and 23cm tall, and it contains one (1) speaking female character that I ever found.
She's introduced when someone attempts to rape her and every other incident I read after that is about her actions trying to decide who gets to have sex with her and failing. Noncon happens. She runs away from an arranged marriage but gets dragged back to it. And the title protagonist pays a pimp who hits her until she agrees to sex work for survival. But? Somehow? The book ends up a love story??? Where she marries the guy that paid for her? I just read the last bit of the book to see how it ended but I can't think of a way to get there from the beginning that isn't epically creepy.
So I am getting rid of this book.
And hoping the next one I read will wash the first one out.
Also? Even ignoring the gendered epic creep factor, it's just not very good. I mean, I started reading it, had a sleep, then forgot I was already reading a book and sat down to decide what to read next.
If they can't write women well, they just can't write well.
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Date: 2016-02-18 09:57 pm (UTC)... I can't imagine it, but...
Book is The Jackal of Nar by John Marco
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