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Originally Posted by Gormagon
One novel I stopped reading recently because the author used "them" as a pronoun for one of the protagonists.
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Which book was it? From what you wrote it seems we have very different tastes, so the odds are good that I’ll like a book you hated.
On that note: You might like The Gilded Chain by Dave Duncan, it annoyed me so much that I actually wrote
a review about it, back when I still used Goodreads:
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OK plot, well written, good worldbuilding, BUT: The female characters were handled so badly that it was noticable and annoying. I've read lots of books describing societies where women have less power than men, so that's not the problem. But the women were mostly invisible, or when they appeared they were described so briefly that you could practically hear the author muttering "Let's get boring this female stuff out of the way so I can return to important things". Minor spoiler:
I expect this kind of treatment of women from Dickens, but not from someone living today.
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