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Review Date: 1/22/2018
I checked out when after the butch lesbian teenaged girl rescued the femme teenaged girl from the brink of sexual slavery, the femme teenaged girl made insisted that having magical whore adventures was the only way their story could progress. This book basically took an interesting fantasy hook and drowned it in old man spunk wanking over pre-adult young women.
Review Date: 12/30/2011
This collection was a mixed bag. Stories written using historical figures are hard to swing, and those were the weakest stories in the collection. On the other hand, those that used time travel as their primary device instead of celebrity cameos were much more enjoyable.
Review Date: 8/20/2012
This book wants to explore how much of us is free will, and how much is genetically determined; it seems to fall pretty hard on the essentialist side, that is, 'determined'. It wants to explore how racial bigotry is wrong, but essentialist misogyny is okay--women exist to have babies and be sexy. It works from a fundamental misunderstanding of hunter/gatherer societies and why people transitioned away from them. It was almost good, in places, in the way characters seemed to be rationalizing bad behavior as 'genes' as an excuse--but then it goes right on and rewards that behavior and excuse. It claims that in a 'feminized' society, only specially-made supermale killers are effective soldiers.
In short, a thriller that tries to be deep but ends up shallowly brushing over the author's own issues.
In short, a thriller that tries to be deep but ends up shallowly brushing over the author's own issues.
Review Date: 9/7/2017
A neat followup to Lovecraft that envisions actually living in a world where those ancient and terrifying forces exist, and interact with our world and its equally terrifying concerns. Both loving of the source and critical of its flaws, Emrys writes clearly and smoothly and gives a satisfying conclusion.
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