Dratted false advertising
Feb. 21st, 2016 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI picked up a book. There's a female character on the front cover. Also on the back cover, leading a rebellion.
She shows up on page 260. And thus far she is not leading a rebellion, she is mostly crying about her dead father and wishing she was a man.
I mean they live in magic world so if she was literally wishing she was a man then cool, we could have a trans man, that would be new and interesting.
But no.
She's crying because the only way she can be useful in her culture is to give birth to a boy.
It is a fantasy book. There are multiple sentient species ffs. Why would you duplicate sexism so bad?
The first third of the book starred a man, killed his wife to motivate him, then killed him.
The second third starred a man, killed his sister to motivate him, then spent most of the time focused on the bad guy to show us he was really really bad and also bad and incompetent but he still bad.
Now the last third of the book, ish, starting on page 260, does not so much star a woman as show her, cause it keeps going back to focus on the surviving men. To be fair it did kill her father to motivate her. Apparently that's the author's one trick.
If I wanted to read a boy book would I pick up the one with a woman on the cover? No!
Idiots did the cover.
I shall finish reading the book but I'll put it in the To Go bag straight away.
... I'd put the name in here but I'm not sure I remember it right, it was pretty generic.
*sigh*
She shows up on page 260. And thus far she is not leading a rebellion, she is mostly crying about her dead father and wishing she was a man.
I mean they live in magic world so if she was literally wishing she was a man then cool, we could have a trans man, that would be new and interesting.
But no.
She's crying because the only way she can be useful in her culture is to give birth to a boy.
It is a fantasy book. There are multiple sentient species ffs. Why would you duplicate sexism so bad?
The first third of the book starred a man, killed his wife to motivate him, then killed him.
The second third starred a man, killed his sister to motivate him, then spent most of the time focused on the bad guy to show us he was really really bad and also bad and incompetent but he still bad.
Now the last third of the book, ish, starting on page 260, does not so much star a woman as show her, cause it keeps going back to focus on the surviving men. To be fair it did kill her father to motivate her. Apparently that's the author's one trick.
If I wanted to read a boy book would I pick up the one with a woman on the cover? No!
Idiots did the cover.
I shall finish reading the book but I'll put it in the To Go bag straight away.
... I'd put the name in here but I'm not sure I remember it right, it was pretty generic.
*sigh*