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Lilith Saintcrow: avoid
Apr. 22nd, 2022 09:13 amFor the last week or so I have been reading Lilith Saintcrow's The Hedgewitch Queen, while composing in my head the Dreamwidth post about how most writers don't know enough to compose languages. (Characters use both "m'chri" (ma cherie) and "summat". IJS.)
Then I reached the sequel, and early on the hero rapes his wife, the hedgewitch queen, with description of her struggles, and says at the end he'd do it again. Oh, hell, no.
So I put the Kindle forcefully aside and picked up A Thatched Roof, by the English writer Beverley Nichols. It's a description of his beloved weekend cottage and the process of remodeling it to his tastes. A perfect cozy, in short.
Then Nichols's friend John shops up for a second visit. On the first visit he was a Socialist; this visit he is a Fascist, complete with black shirt. This is treated as a humorous eccentricity. The book was written in 1933. So much for cozy. (I am very fond of the book and will finish it; it was a jarring note.)
Then I reached the sequel, and early on the hero rapes his wife, the hedgewitch queen, with description of her struggles, and says at the end he'd do it again. Oh, hell, no.
So I put the Kindle forcefully aside and picked up A Thatched Roof, by the English writer Beverley Nichols. It's a description of his beloved weekend cottage and the process of remodeling it to his tastes. A perfect cozy, in short.
Then Nichols's friend John shops up for a second visit. On the first visit he was a Socialist; this visit he is a Fascist, complete with black shirt. This is treated as a humorous eccentricity. The book was written in 1933. So much for cozy. (I am very fond of the book and will finish it; it was a jarring note.)
