I've been including a variation of that warning on a majority of posts for this book in particular, haven't I? Still, considering this series is full of potentially triggering subjects handled very poorly, I prefer to be on the safe side here and try to warn where possible!
I'm sorry, WHAT? Is the Afterlife some kind of god?
I mean, people have been praying to it like it's something that can actually hear and respond to them for this whole trilogy... seriously, the shallowness of these people's religious beliefs is just one of many glaring holes in the worldbuilding, but it's one that bugs me personally quite a lot.
You mean the stuff made out of honey, which was historically so expensive it was generally considered rich people food? Riiiiight. Also the description of this place is so cliched it's virtually a repeat of the one from Morontagh
To be fair, they make it from honey they collect on the island; I skimmed over that part.
WTF is a guy this obviously rich doing in a scumhole like this??
Gambling, clearly;). Though it does make me think (again) that Newcomb just jams the cliches together without thinking through if they actually fit or not. So we have obviously stereotypical upper class bad guy hanging out in obviously stereotypical dive bar full of pirates.
Gods help us, this was obviously supposed to make Triscuit look "clever". 🙄
And admittedly I don't play these sorts of card games IRL so my expertise here is limited, but whatever is actually going on here and is supposed to be clever is not conveyed well, at all.
Poor damn guy. This is the only time I've given a damn about any of the characters in this fucking thing. :(
And he's about to be turned into the bad guy, after which he'll be treated as if he'd embraced evil by his own choice and is someone our heroes can fight with zero guilt! Seriously, Wulfgar draws one of the shortest straws in this thing, and it's frankly disturbing.
Finally, torture that's actually effective. For all the wrong reasons, and poor Wulfgar is just going to turn into a stupid villain anyway. We don't want to see an innocent victim get tortured and then just turn evil and die! We want them to be rescued! We want them to get a happy ending, not THIS!
Indeed!
"And now, young Skywalker... you will die!"
Good... goood...
Anyway, watch this commm tomorrow, since I have a side project coming up and this makes me think of it!
See? See? There are female heroes who actually do stuff in this book! It's not ragingly misogynistic at all!
I feel like Newcomb is trying to course-correct on the misogyny... emphasis on trying. He is not succeeding.
I, uh, can't wait.
At least I'd rather spend time with Marcus, Becca and Geldon than almost anyone else in this mess of a trilogy?
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I've been including a variation of that warning on a majority of posts for this book in particular, haven't I? Still, considering this series is full of potentially triggering subjects handled very poorly, I prefer to be on the safe side here and try to warn where possible!
I'm sorry, WHAT? Is the Afterlife some kind of god?
I mean, people have been praying to it like it's something that can actually hear and respond to them for this whole trilogy... seriously, the shallowness of these people's religious beliefs is just one of many glaring holes in the worldbuilding, but it's one that bugs me personally quite a lot.
You mean the stuff made out of honey, which was historically so expensive it was generally considered rich people food? Riiiiight. Also the description of this place is so cliched it's virtually a repeat of the one from Morontagh
To be fair, they make it from honey they collect on the island; I skimmed over that part.
WTF is a guy this obviously rich doing in a scumhole like this??
Gambling, clearly;). Though it does make me think (again) that Newcomb just jams the cliches together without thinking through if they actually fit or not. So we have obviously stereotypical upper class bad guy hanging out in obviously stereotypical dive bar full of pirates.
Gods help us, this was obviously supposed to make Triscuit look "clever". 🙄
And admittedly I don't play these sorts of card games IRL so my expertise here is limited, but whatever is actually going on here and is supposed to be clever is not conveyed well, at all.
Poor damn guy. This is the only time I've given a damn about any of the characters in this fucking thing. :(
And he's about to be turned into the bad guy, after which he'll be treated as if he'd embraced evil by his own choice and is someone our heroes can fight with zero guilt! Seriously, Wulfgar draws one of the shortest straws in this thing, and it's frankly disturbing.
Finally, torture that's actually effective. For all the wrong reasons, and poor Wulfgar is just going to turn into a stupid villain anyway. We don't want to see an innocent victim get tortured and then just turn evil and die! We want them to be rescued! We want them to get a happy ending, not THIS!
Indeed!
"And now, young Skywalker... you will die!"
Good... goood...
Anyway, watch this commm tomorrow, since I have a side project coming up and this makes me think of it!
See? See? There are female heroes who actually do stuff in this book! It's not ragingly misogynistic at all!
I feel like Newcomb is trying to course-correct on the misogyny... emphasis on trying. He is not succeeding.
I, uh, can't wait.
At least I'd rather spend time with Marcus, Becca and Geldon than almost anyone else in this mess of a trilogy?