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North Child
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One of the reasons I started this was to know what it was before giving the book to my niece.
Well, I will absolutely not recommend it to any young girl.
First of all, it's misogynistic as all hell, of all the female characters only two were not evil or stupid. Heroine's mother, that widow, the woman in the dress shop, the Troll Queen and her servant, that kitchen troll were either assholes or just witless (like the mother)... But hey, the male characters (with one exception) were noble, good, helpful, and smart!! Thank god for the men, right?
The heroine [Marie Sue] Rose had the deepest connection with her father and brother - so deep in fact that we had to endure a bunch of chapters from their POV's. Fun statistics: out of 116 chapters, only 46 are actually by the heroine, 20 by the evil Troll Queen, the other 50 were male voices.
How is that okay in a book about a girl on her adventures?
Second of all, it's boring. Those boring as heck adventures, my god... It felt like the book was written for 5 year olds and not teenagers at how lame and convenient everything was! The Troll Queen was a cardboard cutout of a character, her voice was flat and idiotic. It seemed like for the past 150 years the only thing she could think of was (view spoiler)
And let's fucking talk about that horrendousness for one fucking second!! (view spoiler)
Are you fucking kidding me? Am I the only one or fucking what?
Where did people find romance in this pile of nonsense, I don't even know, because if that's romance for young girls, then heck help us all. Where a silent stranger appears to her night after night (taken from the blurb) - wasn't at all fucking strange and wasn't at all fucking stupid.
And hey, let's not forget how the bear noticed Rose when she was a child - and then his POV went all sobbing of "hope and happines" when looking into her eyes, that's such a lovely start of any romantic story, right? FFS.
Don't get me started on the lame ass conflict resolution done in half a page, it was as if the author got so tired of her own writing, she just wanted to finish it quickly.
I'm done. Bye.
Well, I will absolutely not recommend it to any young girl.
First of all, it's misogynistic as all hell, of all the female characters only two were not evil or stupid. Heroine's mother, that widow, the woman in the dress shop, the Troll Queen and her servant, that kitchen troll were either assholes or just witless (like the mother)... But hey, the male characters (with one exception) were noble, good, helpful, and smart!! Thank god for the men, right?
The heroine [Marie Sue] Rose had the deepest connection with her father and brother - so deep in fact that we had to endure a bunch of chapters from their POV's. Fun statistics: out of 116 chapters, only 46 are actually by the heroine, 20 by the evil Troll Queen, the other 50 were male voices.
How is that okay in a book about a girl on her adventures?
Second of all, it's boring. Those boring as heck adventures, my god... It felt like the book was written for 5 year olds and not teenagers at how lame and convenient everything was! The Troll Queen was a cardboard cutout of a character, her voice was flat and idiotic. It seemed like for the past 150 years the only thing she could think of was (view spoiler)
And let's fucking talk about that horrendousness for one fucking second!! (view spoiler)
Are you fucking kidding me? Am I the only one or fucking what?
Where did people find romance in this pile of nonsense, I don't even know, because if that's romance for young girls, then heck help us all. Where a silent stranger appears to her night after night (taken from the blurb) - wasn't at all fucking strange and wasn't at all fucking stupid.
And hey, let's not forget how the bear noticed Rose when she was a child - and then his POV went all sobbing of "hope and happines" when looking into her eyes, that's such a lovely start of any romantic story, right? FFS.
Don't get me started on the lame ass conflict resolution done in half a page, it was as if the author got so tired of her own writing, she just wanted to finish it quickly.
I'm done. Bye.
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Reading Progress
July 4, 2022
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Started Reading
July 4, 2022
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July 10, 2022
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32.23%
"I don't know what to think of this book. I understand it's a retelling of an old tale but the misogyny is just over the fucking top. Ugh."
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165
July 11, 2022
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44.92%
"Gosh, this heroine is kinda stupid. There is no way I'm giving this trash to my niece (it was one of the ressons I decided to read it)."
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230
July 12, 2022
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2022-read
July 12, 2022
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Finished Reading
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Jul 12, 2022 01:41PM
Thanks 😊 it is time to stop this auto sabotage trend …
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Ilaria 🌸 wrote: "Thanks 😊 it is time to stop this auto sabotage trend …"Exactly!! It's time we read better stories for girls, damn!!
Carmen wrote: "Great review."Thanks! Gosh, I totally forgot about this book - and how bad it actually was. 😂
It's so depressing when female authors write such mysogenistic trash. Great review though and thank goodness you read it first instead of simply gifting a copy to your neice.
Louise wrote: "It's so depressing when female authors write such mysogenistic trash. Great review though and thank goodness you read it first instead of simply gifting a copy to your neice."thanks, Louise! Yeah, it's depressing, really. x
