Raymond E Feist: Shadow of a Dark Queen
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beccaelizabethI don't know why I'm still reading this series.
... completeness, I guess.
It's like someone suggested to the author that maybe, possibly, he could try writing more women?
so he pondered, and thought, you know, maybe some male characters do need more motivation.
so he added rape. and prostitutes.
*sigh*
prostitutes took the time in the middle of the plot to explain that after their husband died it was sex work or theft, and they had no other options. the more I read the more these books only make sense if the author actually believes that. Women: married, sex workers, or thieves. because what else?
to be fair, there is one 'dark queen'. she tried to stay young forever. on purpose, unlike the male mages who just stay young because reasons. and presumably she did it the stupid way, since we find even more alternatives in the course of the book. and all this adds up to her suffering a terrible fate that dooms teh world. because vanity.
:eyerolls so hard:
there's also a couple of mothers, who are one hundred percent focused on their sons getting their inheritance.
and one mage, which ought to be promising, but she was the flattest nobody for most of the book and then on the last few pages turns out to be the replacement love interest for one of the long lived characters.
The whole rest of the book was about murderers turning into heroes because training to do violence for their country. I'm not keen on it even ignoring the gendered stuff. I mean, do we really need another book about a man who discovers he quite likes hurting people, but is somehow not a bad person really? ... actually that's gendered stuff too.
This book is going back on the 'to sell' pile and I'm really unimpressed.
'teenagers learn to do violence and command people' is no the only valid plot.
... completeness, I guess.
It's like someone suggested to the author that maybe, possibly, he could try writing more women?
so he pondered, and thought, you know, maybe some male characters do need more motivation.
so he added rape. and prostitutes.
*sigh*
prostitutes took the time in the middle of the plot to explain that after their husband died it was sex work or theft, and they had no other options. the more I read the more these books only make sense if the author actually believes that. Women: married, sex workers, or thieves. because what else?
to be fair, there is one 'dark queen'. she tried to stay young forever. on purpose, unlike the male mages who just stay young because reasons. and presumably she did it the stupid way, since we find even more alternatives in the course of the book. and all this adds up to her suffering a terrible fate that dooms teh world. because vanity.
:eyerolls so hard:
there's also a couple of mothers, who are one hundred percent focused on their sons getting their inheritance.
and one mage, which ought to be promising, but she was the flattest nobody for most of the book and then on the last few pages turns out to be the replacement love interest for one of the long lived characters.
The whole rest of the book was about murderers turning into heroes because training to do violence for their country. I'm not keen on it even ignoring the gendered stuff. I mean, do we really need another book about a man who discovers he quite likes hurting people, but is somehow not a bad person really? ... actually that's gendered stuff too.
This book is going back on the 'to sell' pile and I'm really unimpressed.
'teenagers learn to do violence and command people' is no the only valid plot.