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#61 Narufan85

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Posted 03 June 2015 - 06:47 PM

This announcement about the release of the first book from the "hero's" POV made me laugh out loud.

 

What a world we live in when stuff like this enjoys such popularity.  

 

Books like these.... or a manga wherein the true hero loses out to a selfish, sadistic heel whose warped sense of importance is overshadowed only by his misogyny, while the nice guy ends up with a virtually useless, self-obsessed, full-figured toddler.  

 

Good times.

 

 

P.S.  The reader comment about Cassandra Claire was funny too, but in a sad way. So-called writers like Claire and EL James are celebrated and made filthy rich for blatantly regurgitated rip-offs of popular works.  Like I said, what a world we live in.

 

It's a shame that this is what will be associated with the romance genre, because there are a lot of interesting works out there that make an effort to challenge common tropes and norms rather than simply parrot back misogynistic junk like this.






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