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Apr. 7th, 2015 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjornwildeThe things what I am reading...
I gave Octavia Butler a go with Parable of Talents but had to set it aside. I liked her writing style but the dystopia/post-disaster feel of the book wasn't working for me. May pick it up again later.
Next I tried Jane Wells' Dirty Magic, which has been maybe a three star book. If you like hard boiled cop stories in an urban fantasy environment, you'd like give it more stars. I think I'll be setting it aside as I keep finding myself wondering if a woman really wrote this. The protagonist is female but exudes so much testosterone, she reads (at least to me) as the type of bad ass female who reads as a male power fantasy. I mean, I keep expecting her to insult someone with, "_____ like a girl". Add to this liberal use of tropes and cliches, not to mention the heavy hammer of all magic is bad, and it just doesn't work for me. The final straw was the bad portrayal of a 12 step meeting, that left me wondering if the author had bothered to do any homework. 12 step programs are not sermons, they are dialogues.
Not sure what I am going to read next. I still am committed to the year of diversity, but I think I need to find something more hopeful given my current mental state. Maybe I'll try Throne of the Crescent Moon, if my library has it that is.
I gave Octavia Butler a go with Parable of Talents but had to set it aside. I liked her writing style but the dystopia/post-disaster feel of the book wasn't working for me. May pick it up again later.
Next I tried Jane Wells' Dirty Magic, which has been maybe a three star book. If you like hard boiled cop stories in an urban fantasy environment, you'd like give it more stars. I think I'll be setting it aside as I keep finding myself wondering if a woman really wrote this. The protagonist is female but exudes so much testosterone, she reads (at least to me) as the type of bad ass female who reads as a male power fantasy. I mean, I keep expecting her to insult someone with, "_____ like a girl". Add to this liberal use of tropes and cliches, not to mention the heavy hammer of all magic is bad, and it just doesn't work for me. The final straw was the bad portrayal of a 12 step meeting, that left me wondering if the author had bothered to do any homework. 12 step programs are not sermons, they are dialogues.
Not sure what I am going to read next. I still am committed to the year of diversity, but I think I need to find something more hopeful given my current mental state. Maybe I'll try Throne of the Crescent Moon, if my library has it that is.
