God yes. I stay out of most other internet spaces, or I just look at content without engaging because what's the point? I'm not going to get anything worthwhile out of some creep responding with "mmkay" or "lol ur stupid".
Exactly! And beyond that, I find this a rather nice space for longform content, which is exactly what I want.
Well, that sucks. (For Douglass, though... I don't know if I'd call it "romantasy"? She obviously does like the fantasy part, too, especially in the later books, something that I don't get the impression Yarros does.)
I might have read the first book of one of them? Something about some manipulative bitch priestess who reads the future in entrails that move like snakes and there's a big pyramid with a dog-headed villain inside? That was the last of her books I ever read before giving up because it wasn't even "so bad it's good" any more. And people were shoving small statues up their asses on a regular basis and somehow not ending up with perforated bowels. God that was disgusting.
Oh, that was The Serpent Bride, the first book of the DarkGlass Mountain trilogy, the last series of books featuring Axis and co. Your description roughly tracks, though I'm not quite sure if Ishbel's that bad and the god was actually jackal-headed (and is called "Kanubai", because that is certainly not a rip-off of "Anubis" at all). For the last point... StarDrifter says that "it [is] not unknown for Coroleans to die from perforated bowels and wombs due to crowding in one too many deities." And yeah, I fully agree on Coroleas; we gain absolutely nothing from seeing how evil Coroleas is and how they torture the souls out of people and such. It's probably just there for the grimdark, and I don't like that.
That does make me want to read the other two trilogies even more... since The Serpent Bride is a severe regression from Threshold and Beyond the Hanging Wall and it features rather more royal drama than the other books... so I wonder if it came from the intervening trilogies. I also found the quality improved impressively fast after that book, which makes me wonder the same thing.
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God yes. I stay out of most other internet spaces, or I just look at content without engaging because what's the point? I'm not going to get anything worthwhile out of some creep responding with "mmkay" or "lol ur stupid".
Exactly! And beyond that, I find this a rather nice space for longform content, which is exactly what I want.
Well, that sucks. (For Douglass, though... I don't know if I'd call it "romantasy"? She obviously does like the fantasy part, too, especially in the later books, something that I don't get the impression Yarros does.)
I might have read the first book of one of them? Something about some manipulative bitch priestess who reads the future in entrails that move like snakes and there's a big pyramid with a dog-headed villain inside? That was the last of her books I ever read before giving up because it wasn't even "so bad it's good" any more. And people were shoving small statues up their asses on a regular basis and somehow not ending up with perforated bowels. God that was disgusting.
Oh, that was The Serpent Bride, the first book of the DarkGlass Mountain trilogy, the last series of books featuring Axis and co. Your description roughly tracks, though I'm not quite sure if Ishbel's that bad and the god was actually jackal-headed (and is called "Kanubai", because that is certainly not a rip-off of "Anubis" at all). For the last point... StarDrifter says that "it [is] not unknown for Coroleans to die from perforated bowels and wombs due to crowding in one too many deities." And yeah, I fully agree on Coroleas; we gain absolutely nothing from seeing how evil Coroleas is and how they torture the souls out of people and such. It's probably just there for the grimdark, and I don't like that.
That does make me want to read the other two trilogies even more... since The Serpent Bride is a severe regression from Threshold and Beyond the Hanging Wall and it features rather more royal drama than the other books... so I wonder if it came from the intervening trilogies. I also found the quality improved impressively fast after that book, which makes me wonder the same thing.
Yes, that was about what I was thinking of. :p