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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

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jjjreads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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fuguefire's review against another edition

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adventurous inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Great book with fantastic cultural insight! I have a few gripes regarding LGBT+ matters in the book:
I found it frustrating that the main character continuously referred to themselves as “she”? Perhaps it is a cultural thing I’m not seeing, but it seems to me that the mc would have definitely preferred to refer to themselves (in their head) as “he”… obviously they saw themselves as more of a “woman disguised as a man” but there is a point where it kinda just becomes reasonable to use “he/him” pronouns because the flipping of POV made it very confusing. I understand if this is not supposed to be a story about a trans man, since the mc is only transitioning because of their own ambition, but it was very clunky to have the mc see themself as a man, refer themself a woman, then be intermittently referred to as he and her by the supporting characters
Please let me know if I am missing some aspect of LGBT+ Gender theory here, and perhaps I feel this way because I come from a western culture, I just felt like this one specific aspect of the book could have been dealt with better. I would also be interested to hear what Chinese tans/non-cis people thought about it! Other than that, I loved this book, the characters unerring drive for their goal, and the flaws that create in them.

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