Drift by Megan Hutchins

Drift

by Megan Hutchins

To raise his family out of poverty, seventeen-year-old Tenjat joins a dangerous defense against the naga monsters that gnaw at his drifting island's foundation.

Reviewed by layawaydragon on

2 of 5 stars

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Like most other reviewers, I'm fucking torn. I'm along different lines though.

I love, love, love the mythology and larger world building.

While Tenjat did get a tag annoying at times, I get the power of societal brainwashing and the desperation to rise above his station. Him and his girl opposite were a good match and I liked their journey.

The problem for me is how strictly binary and heteronormative the world is!

If only the elite rule without children, and being married and spawning are bad, then how could the elite not be gay AF??? And they can take care of the kids and kill off the breeders as sacrifices to the naga if they're overburden.

I mean really. I am disappoint, Hutchins!

Instead, a gay couple was found out and kicked out. Tenjat and everyone else was just so repulsed. WHAT?!? Well, fuck you very much for that utter bullshit.

Everything else was great, but damn. How can I give three stars with such homophobic nonsense?

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