A review by se_wigget
Linden Manor by Catherine Cavendish

2.0

 
TW: brief rape scene & protagonist wondering what a person would have to do to be punished that way 
 
This is... quite original.  It's not your grandma's ghost story. 
 
I can kind of see the appeal of... a rape survivor turning into an avenging snake goddess. Except... I'd prefer an alternate reality in which there's no such thing as rape. Or patriarchy. Or misogyny. 
 
Please. There are much better word choices than "hysterical." I know I've used it in the past, but fuck patriarchal vocabulary words. "Panic-stricken" or "severely anxious" are better word choices. Free yourself from patriarchal Stockholm Syndrome—maybe that should be a hashtag. Or #fuckyourinternalizedmisogyny 
 
Yeah, there are definitely at least a couple reasons why I think the author has internalized patriarchy and needs to take a Women's Studies 101 class before writing any more novels. 
 
It sucks that having had a narcissist mother, I projected that onto the protagonist's mother. I misconstrued something she said—into something far more judgmental than it actually was. And I kept expecting her mother to bite her head off and manipulate her. It's no wonder I tend to write fiction in which the mother is either dead or a narcissist; if I attempted to write a healthy mother-daughter relationship, it would probably come across as fake. 
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