So there are parts of it that I really like. The focus on dreams and the horror in them was super cool. I like hearing about the world and the different cultures and how different everyone speaks and dresses. I have liked the character development too, especially Perrin's. I actually felt like I related to his wolf stuff as a trans person.

But hooooooollllyyy shit how about a cis het sit down honey you need to fucking relax. Men and women aren't seperate fucking species you nonce. Also why can no one ever say what they mean?? In general but especially men and womens interactions are like halfway between a conversation and a discussion of platonic forms. I can't fucking handle it. It's bad enough that he can't seem to describe women without first establishing their relationship to men, and that he sees liking men as a moral thing, and everything I've mentioned so far.

But when Mr. Jordan decided to include dom/sub dynamics into THE FUCKING MAGIC SYSTEM I sincerely ragequit. FOR FUCKS SAKE. Not only that but a woman having to ask a man is treated like its a degrading, dishonorable thing, and the women who just sorta ask and want things like affection and sex are seen as strange and other! A woman flirted with a man you haven't even confessed to and you are contemplating kidnapping?? Murder??

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

anyway the books really are neat but I am 50 shades of gay and I don't think it's going to get any better. Maybe when sanderson takes over it does but those are just the last two books soooooooooooo. I guess I could read summaries and then go to the last two books but I could also just read another series, considering red rising or malazaan book of the fallen. or kingkiller chronicles.

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

if anyone does want to vouch for it feel free, I'm already feeling pretty stockholmy

  • Eris235 [undecided]
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    2 years ago

    Malazan is amazing in a ton of ways, and I do recommend it. Lots of great character who happen to be women (as opposed to WoT, where the great women characters are great BECAUSE of their 'women' traits), as well as gay/bi being treated as 'normal'.

    Compared to Wheel of Time, the author of Malazan (who is an Anthropologist) has stated that the world is generally egalitarian because of magic; who gives a shit about men vs women when either could maybe fireball your ass.

    But, I will say that it has a pretty big TW for sexual violence on, like, the whole series. Which, if that sounds somewhat against the above statement, it kinda is? I've seen some people hold Malazan up as feminist, when that's only really true compared to the bulk of fantasy, which is more of a condemnation of 'fantasy novels' imo. Also, there is some 'bury your gays', there's also just, almost no romance that ends well for anyone on screen, so it's arguably more excusable.