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May. 3rd, 2008 06:10 pmI've bogged down in reading Rachel Lee's Shadows of Prophecy. I read the previous book in the series, Shadows of Myth, and didn't like it enough to keep it but did like it enough to grab the next two when they came up on BookMooch. Sadly, I think I'm going to get rid of this book and the next one without reading further. I'm running aground on what I perceive as racism. I doubt the author intended the effect she's produced, but she made choices that led there.
I hope that there are other people reading this who've read at least the first book in the series and who might therefore have some opinions about it and thoughts on the issues I'm having. The things bothering me in book two were there in book one. They were simply more peripheral and more ignorable (by me).
This is going to be full of spoilers, and there are details from the first book that I may mangle a bit because I don't have it here (and because it's been at least six months since I read it). I'm also having some trouble writing things out coherently because I keep getting distracted and wandering verbally.
( Cut for spoilers and discussion of race issues )
I hesitated over writing this and even more over posting it. Partly because I'm still learning how to spot this stuff reliably and partly because I'm afraid both of this entry dropping into silence and of it spawning arguments. I don't know which would make me more anxious.
Of course, if I don't want things falling into silence, I shouldn't post on the weekends, and if I don't want things to be public and open for discussion, I should lock them.
I hope that there are other people reading this who've read at least the first book in the series and who might therefore have some opinions about it and thoughts on the issues I'm having. The things bothering me in book two were there in book one. They were simply more peripheral and more ignorable (by me).
This is going to be full of spoilers, and there are details from the first book that I may mangle a bit because I don't have it here (and because it's been at least six months since I read it). I'm also having some trouble writing things out coherently because I keep getting distracted and wandering verbally.
( Cut for spoilers and discussion of race issues )
I hesitated over writing this and even more over posting it. Partly because I'm still learning how to spot this stuff reliably and partly because I'm afraid both of this entry dropping into silence and of it spawning arguments. I don't know which would make me more anxious.
Of course, if I don't want things falling into silence, I shouldn't post on the weekends, and if I don't want things to be public and open for discussion, I should lock them.
