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Abandoned books
Jul. 4th, 2020 09:35 amThief's Magic by Trudi Canavan
Industrial fantasy about a college student stealing an artifact from an ancient grave only to discover it's a thousand-year-old woman whose consciousness was bound up in a book. He's like, "oh, right, she's a person," and then proceeds to treat her entirely like an object that he can do whatever he wants with. I don't know if the remainder of this book notices how fucked up all that is, but it was all so boring that I don't want to stick around to find out.
Updraft by Fran Wilde
Read the first couple chapters of this fantasy(?) about a teenaged girl making bad decisions in an authoritarian society that lives in these weird bone towers and flies on constructed wings. It's super duper into its esthetic and I don't DGAF about bone towers and wings. And I just wasn't in the mood for all the bog standard YA beats, up to and including the mean girl nonsense.
Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
Urban fantasy about the only female werewolf in the world. You know that feeling where you are reading a book featuring a toxic, rapey relationship (he makes a pass, she says no, so he does the obvious thing and ties her up and manipulates her into verbally consenting, it's super romantic, guys) and you just assume the arc of the books will be away from that relationship . . . and then you start getting a bad feeling and check bookjacket copy for a later book? And . . . no?
Industrial fantasy about a college student stealing an artifact from an ancient grave only to discover it's a thousand-year-old woman whose consciousness was bound up in a book. He's like, "oh, right, she's a person," and then proceeds to treat her entirely like an object that he can do whatever he wants with. I don't know if the remainder of this book notices how fucked up all that is, but it was all so boring that I don't want to stick around to find out.
Updraft by Fran Wilde
Read the first couple chapters of this fantasy(?) about a teenaged girl making bad decisions in an authoritarian society that lives in these weird bone towers and flies on constructed wings. It's super duper into its esthetic and I don't DGAF about bone towers and wings. And I just wasn't in the mood for all the bog standard YA beats, up to and including the mean girl nonsense.
Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
Urban fantasy about the only female werewolf in the world. You know that feeling where you are reading a book featuring a toxic, rapey relationship (he makes a pass, she says no, so he does the obvious thing and ties her up and manipulates her into verbally consenting, it's super romantic, guys) and you just assume the arc of the books will be away from that relationship . . . and then you start getting a bad feeling and check bookjacket copy for a later book? And . . . no?