Reviewed by nannah on
This just maybe wasn't my thing.
I think I'm very much over fantasies based on or centering on misogynistic worlds, even ones that are historical fantasies. Stories where rape is described down to the most intricate detail - and there can be fantasy and whatever ... but still the grossest of misogyny ... because that's the element of realism the male author chooses to ground his world.
Nice. Just ... nice.
(And also perhaps islamophobia? I know the official "wikipedia" article says the religions in the book have no relation to in-real-life religions but to have the "villains" be darker-skinned people who wear veils with Arabic-like names [and contribute the nastiest atrocities ... considered "worse than offal", etc.]. Like you can say they have to relation to irl religions and people, but if you draw enough similarities then yes, you as an author must have compared your fictitious people to that irl group of people. Of course, I only read 78 pages of this large novel before I lost interest and didn't want to handle the misogyny, etc., so I could be wrong about this.)
Anyway, like I said: not my thing.
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- 6 December, 2018: Finished reading
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