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halfdryad's review against another edition
I've read what I think is the majority of Ben Alderson books that are currently available for purchase, and I've enjoyed them all! I was very excited to read this one once I bought it, and I was turned off of it rather early due to the way there's descriptions of an antagonist being a fat man. The descriptions of him were deeply uncomfortable as a fat person, and at one point just unnecessary with just how much it was happening in a short span of time. It's a common trope in a lot of media and over the years in some corners of media, people have gotten better at not doing that because it's not a good look in anything. Seeing fatphobia from a writer I enjoy, from a community that I am apart of (lgbtq+) who is also a fat person, it made me sick to my stomach and I had to DNF the book there. And that's not something I do often.
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Graphic: Fatphobia
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