Yeah, and McCaffery included so much gross entitlement about the lord of the manor fucking the serfs, and so much rape normalization, that it put me right off in my wee adolescent sexuality. Much like Piers Anthony, come to think of it. Also for some reason the age and experience imbalances (Menolly/Robinton is a massive squick for me) bothered the heck out of me with McCaffery, only bothered me with Pierce with a few relationships, and never even hit my radar with McKinley.
God, the 1980s were such a disaster for healthy romance writing, across the board.
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Yeah, and McCaffery included so much gross entitlement about the lord of the manor fucking the serfs, and so much rape normalization, that it put me right off in my wee adolescent sexuality. Much like Piers Anthony, come to think of it. Also for some reason the age and experience imbalances (Menolly/Robinton is a massive squick for me) bothered the heck out of me with McCaffery, only bothered me with Pierce with a few relationships, and never even hit my radar with McKinley.
God, the 1980s were such a disaster for healthy romance writing, across the board.