I actually really enjoy a well done unreliable narrator. The problem is that it's rarely done well.. and that Mercy didn't seem to be wrong.
"Okay, lady werewolves aren't REALLY inherently less than the male ones, that's just the pack applying their b.s. human social rules that are made even worse by the elders who come from a history with worse views of women AND have the strength to back up whatever the hell they want"
I get what you're saying and this isn't a criticism of you so much as authors who Did Not Do The Research. Yeah, in a lot of ancient (and even modern) societies, women were property and treated appallingly BUT there were exceptions. Sparta, Ancient Egypt, and Emperor Justinian all come to mind as counter examples. While I dislike the idea of All Vampires Ever being modern and enlightened, I also hate the idea of All Old Guys Being Sexist Jerks. Where someone comes from, what values they were inculcated with as a child, should matter.
"Wait, what? Female werewolves are expected to be raped if they don't have a mate? Even the children?... Maybe that's just Honey's experience"
I could do that until the author just came out and said in the book (the equivalent of) "LOL, NOPE! THIS IS THE WAY!" with the B.S. *magical obedience* thing that Adam could do from out of no where.
WAIT! SERIOUSLY? FEEL THE HEAT OF MY HATEFUL HATE!
...not towards you, personally. Obviously. I just wanted to make sure that was noted.
...How did this get published? WHERE is the Sane Editor who says, "No. Just, no. Do it again." Maybe we should band together and form our own publishing company. One where only decent books get published.
I'm not even going to BEGIN to get into the race relations of EVERY WEREWOLF being stronger and more dominant than the pesky Native shapechanger.
WAIT! was Mercy supposed to be a Native American shapechanger? Because I have to admit, I didn't get that from the novel I read. Her culture made ZERO impact on her internal narrative. I assumed that she was so far removed from her ancestors' origins that she didn't count herself among them... or was counted as a member of the tribe by her ancestors' tribe. I seriously thought that she may have had genetic connections to the Native Americans but no social/emotional/mental/cultural connections to any given tribe. I honestly thought that Mercy was white by way of the melting pot.
...Which is a different sort of race fail, I suppose, but one that does happen fairly frequently in modern life.
But if Mercy was genuinely Native American, why didn't she go back to the tribe, which presumably would have methods of teaching her to harness her gifts, instead of moving to live with the werewolves?
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"Okay, lady werewolves aren't REALLY inherently less than the male ones, that's just the pack applying their b.s. human social rules that are made even worse by the elders who come from a history with worse views of women AND have the strength to back up whatever the hell they want"
I get what you're saying and this isn't a criticism of you so much as authors who Did Not Do The Research. Yeah, in a lot of ancient (and even modern) societies, women were property and treated appallingly BUT there were exceptions. Sparta, Ancient Egypt, and Emperor Justinian all come to mind as counter examples. While I dislike the idea of All Vampires Ever being modern and enlightened, I also hate the idea of All Old Guys Being Sexist Jerks. Where someone comes from, what values they were inculcated with as a child, should matter.
"Wait, what? Female werewolves are expected to be raped if they don't have a mate? Even the children?... Maybe that's just Honey's experience"
I could do that until the author just came out and said in the book (the equivalent of) "LOL, NOPE! THIS IS THE WAY!" with the B.S. *magical obedience* thing that Adam could do from out of no where.
WAIT! SERIOUSLY? FEEL THE HEAT OF MY HATEFUL HATE!
...not towards you, personally. Obviously. I just wanted to make sure that was noted.
...How did this get published? WHERE is the Sane Editor who says, "No. Just, no. Do it again." Maybe we should band together and form our own publishing company. One where only decent books get published.
I'm not even going to BEGIN to get into the race relations of EVERY WEREWOLF being stronger and more dominant than the pesky Native shapechanger.
WAIT! was Mercy supposed to be a Native American shapechanger? Because I have to admit, I didn't get that from the novel I read. Her culture made ZERO impact on her internal narrative. I assumed that she was so far removed from her ancestors' origins that she didn't count herself among them... or was counted as a member of the tribe by her ancestors' tribe. I seriously thought that she may have had genetic connections to the Native Americans but no social/emotional/mental/cultural connections to any given tribe. I honestly thought that Mercy was white by way of the melting pot.
...Which is a different sort of race fail, I suppose, but one that does happen fairly frequently in modern life.
But if Mercy was genuinely Native American, why didn't she go back to the tribe, which presumably would have methods of teaching her to harness her gifts, instead of moving to live with the werewolves?