I've heard a lot of good things about A Court of Thorns and Roses but they're usually from very libfem people and I'm not sure I want to read a very libfem book lol
I’ve read the Throne of Glass series. It’s okay. It’s starts with the nonsense that a teenage girl who’s been held as a slave in a salt mine is physically strong enough to beat up men men trained in combat (it takes a couple of books before a plausible explanation for this emerges). She’s ‘strong’ in a very male, stereotypical way - by physical strength, fighting, and not dressing like a woman but also being very beautiful and desirable. In other words, quite typical YA garbage.
There are some great scenes about a witch and her wyvern which could easily have been a better focus for the book.
So it’s worth reading and it’s fairly enjoyable, just frustrating in parts.
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I’ve read the Throne of Glass series. It’s okay. It’s starts with the nonsense that a teenage girl who’s been held as a slave in a salt mine is physically strong enough to beat up men men trained in combat (it takes a couple of books before a plausible explanation for this emerges). She’s ‘strong’ in a very male, stereotypical way - by physical strength, fighting, and not dressing like a woman but also being very beautiful and desirable. In other words, quite typical YA garbage.
There are some great scenes about a witch and her wyvern which could easily have been a better focus for the book.
So it’s worth reading and it’s fairly enjoyable, just frustrating in parts.