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lightreads ([personal profile] lightreads) wrote2011-03-03 10:05 pm
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Flora's Dare by Ysabeau S. Wilce

Flora's Dare (Flora Trilogy, #2)Flora's Dare by Ysabeau S. Wilce

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


More magical adventures in alternate world California with fabulous gender politics and a Central American imperial overlord.



I remember finding this light and charming, but with a few weeks distance the flaws loom larger. My God the sidekick is irritating. Mostly though I’m just deeply skeeved by some of the language choices, which I believe I complained of in the prequel, too. But really! Have your heroine say she was “going to the potty,” while she’s being sexually prayed on by an older man to emphasize her inexperience. But do you have to keep doing it later when she’s exploring her sexuality of her own will? The infantilism of her language was just weird, and it creeped me right out in multiple places.





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