I'd been really confusingly burned reading Uprooted, her previous fairytale novel. (Paragraph of review and feelings here). I very nearly passed Spinning Silver over because of it, and opened the book already on guard and actively looking for hope that the author was going to be less victim blamey. To have the opening paragraph, at first glance, be about a woman using wily charms to bed a guy and then who runs an innocent man out of town for her own gain seemed Not A Great Start, Bob. Having read the entire book, I've softened towards that paragraph, and read it as being ...potentially more sympathetic to her plight? but there's some substantial reading between those lines to get there.
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Date: 2019-05-19 01:16 pm (UTC)I'd been really confusingly burned reading Uprooted, her previous fairytale novel. (Paragraph of review and feelings here). I very nearly passed Spinning Silver over because of it, and opened the book already on guard and actively looking for hope that the author was going to be less victim blamey. To have the opening paragraph, at first glance, be about a woman using wily charms to bed a guy and then who runs an innocent man out of town for her own gain seemed Not A Great Start, Bob. Having read the entire book, I've softened towards that paragraph, and read it as being ...potentially more sympathetic to her plight? but there's some substantial reading between those lines to get there.