Merciful heavens, the teen angst and perverse sexuality.
"Penetrate me with your turgid *roots* baby"...
(gigantic eyeroll)
I keep hoping for someone who can just write a good *story* like Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones... and I keep finding this sort of trash. Need better filters, maybe. I feel like fairy tale motifs have been done-- a lot, and by far more skilled authors-- and probably it'd be best to leave them alone for at least another decade. Or three. There was a fad for it back in the 90s and 00s and I think it's tapped out.
What? The characters get _married_? In a book in 2024? That is surprising…
My jaw hit the floor.
Oh, no no no.
I've read it.
Merciful heavens, the teen angst and perverse sexuality.
"Penetrate me with your turgid *roots* baby"...
(gigantic eyeroll)
I keep hoping for someone who can just write a good *story* like Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones... and I keep finding this sort of trash. Need better filters, maybe. I feel like fairy tale motifs have been done-- a lot, and by far more skilled authors-- and probably it'd be best to leave them alone for at least another decade. Or three. There was a fad for it back in the 90s and 00s and I think it's tapped out.