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Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms by S.O. Callahan, Sarah Wallace
3.0
I really liked Roger a lot. I wish there was more just about Roger studying and working with magic! So much went into crafting these really cool magic systems and I enjoyed those parts the most.
We start off with the idea that Fae and Humans seem to dislike each other, or are at least very segregated. There's a lot of stereotyping between them and it's really not addressed? Wyn and Roger getting married is supposed to "help" with relations between humans and fae, but it's very much a systemic issue within this society.
Then we find out that they all take a very limited test at age 13 that defines their prospects for the entire rest of their lives. Wyn and especially Roger didn't score well enough to have important roles in society, but somehow are tasked with reinventing the entire testing system on their own.
It constantly felt like Roger was being belittled throughout this book and the constant teasing in regards to sexual and romantic matters made me upset for him, considering he is demi. Wyn was nasty to him from the start and this really was not addressed well enough for me.
I couldn't get into the romance because it just went from 0 to 100 all of a sudden with no acknowledgement of past animosity. Roger seemed to have put Wyn on a pedestal. There was also some pretty consistent application of gender roles to Roger and Wyn that I won't go into, but it really took away from the queernormative setup of this society to still see these roles so strictly adhered to.
We start off with the idea that Fae and Humans seem to dislike each other, or are at least very segregated. There's a lot of stereotyping between them and it's really not addressed?
Then we find out that they all take a very limited test at age 13 that defines their prospects for the entire rest of their lives. Wyn and especially Roger didn't score well enough to have important roles in society, but somehow are tasked with reinventing the entire testing system on their own.
It constantly felt like Roger was being belittled throughout this book and the constant teasing in regards to sexual and romantic matters made me upset for him, considering he is demi. Wyn was nasty to him from the start and this really was not addressed well enough for me.
I couldn't get into the romance because it just went from 0 to 100 all of a sudden with no acknowledgement of past animosity. Roger seemed to have put Wyn on a pedestal. There was also some pretty consistent application of gender roles to Roger and Wyn that I won't go into, but it really took away from the queernormative setup of this society to still see these roles so strictly adhered to.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Classism
Moderate: Alcohol and Sexual content