AARRRGGGGHHH!!!!

[meganbmoore]

I just read a review of Patricia Briggs's latest Mercy Thompson book, by someone whose comments on the first two book line up with my opinions on them .  Not only does it include my absolute least favorite theme in fantasy fiction, but apparently, authors are contractually obligated to include my least favorite part of urban fantasy.

I think magicnoirejust summed up, in a comment about the review one of the biggest problems with the treatment of female characters in fantasy.

It's either they have to get raped to become interested in fighting crime or they get raped while fighting crime because they're women and it's dangerous and when a woman is in danger, she gets raped!

I just...I don't think I can read the book now.

Which is bad, because for "kickass female oriented urban fantasy" I'm now left with...Vicki Petterson...and only the comic geek in me gets me past a lot of the problems there(like the fact that I fear the heroine is going to spend several more volumes ignoring the righ guy, while pining for someone who is, not only dull, but blatantly wrong for her...but that's another rant about females in fantasy fiction.)

Comments

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it's all UF authors or just Briggs. The Mercy Thompson books came out in the early-middle wave so maybe they were trying to follow the formula or whatever. *heavy sigh*

But after reading that review, I feel infinitely better about The Spymaster's Lady. My quibbles just don't seem so major at all anymore!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Well...as it's in EVERY SINGLE ONE that's about a girl, Itend to think it's all of them...or at least, strongly "encouraged"

If I drop this, ALL MY URBAN FANTASY SERIES WILL BE ABOUT GUYS(Dresden Files, Nightside, the Rob Thurman books) except the Zodiac books...

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I know. After Hannah's review, I sat and thought about the UF books I'm still loyal to and all I could think of was Rob Thurman's Holy Trinity of Hotness.

m(_____)m <-- my head is really not that big but it's been flattened from all the headdesking today

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I have...the 3 I listed.

*sigh*

It is a rather headdesky day, isn't it?