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A review by ibrokeapot
Dangerous Women, Vol. 1 by George R.R. Martin
2.0
Raisa Stepanova
★★★☆☆
A smart and well-written story with great characters and a beautiful arc, though it was a bit slow-paced for my taste.
I Know How to Pick 'Em
★☆☆☆☆
I have absolutely no idea why this story is included in this anthology. Narrated by a mentally unstable man, the women are neither dangerous nor vivid enough to excite the reader, only dim shadows of what could have been.
Neighbors
★★★★☆
This was a really heart-warming tale about an elderly woman and how she and her family is dealing with her constant episodes of forgetfulness, her fight about keeping life liveable all the while her family is insisting she should move on.
Wrestling Jesus
★☆☆☆☆
Here I don't ask where are the dangerous women, but rather where are the women in general.
"Girl" is only used as a slur and weakness is defined by way of being a pussy. The main character's mother is shamed for having sex and fun after her husband's death. The other female character is displayed as a trophy then tossed aside when the lesson is learned by the men.
And among the manly man things like fighting for a girl and cursing and being really tough there is absolutely nothing left to enjoy and nothing based on which I would recommend this story.
My Heart is Either Broken
★☆☆☆☆
Yet another story about a mentally ill woman through a man's eyes.This story could have been much better if the doubts and discoveries were made by the detectives instead of the husband, whose ignorance about her wife's condition, him interpreting it as "quirky" behaviour made it all the more worse.
Nora's Song
★★★☆☆
The style felt a bit out of place for the era, and the titular character's behaviour was somewhat cliché, but the Queen's and King's quarrel as the backdrop at least piqued my interest for Eleanor of Aquitaine.
The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens
★★★★☆
I remember reading it a while back, and how it shattered all my romanticised theories about this period in Westerosi history.
But after accepting that the first Targeryen civil war was much more gruesome than I previously expected I came to love and care for many of the characters only mentioned among these paragraphs.
★★★☆☆
A smart and well-written story with great characters and a beautiful arc, though it was a bit slow-paced for my taste.
I Know How to Pick 'Em
★☆☆☆☆
I have absolutely no idea why this story is included in this anthology. Narrated by a mentally unstable man, the women are neither dangerous nor vivid enough to excite the reader, only dim shadows of what could have been.
Neighbors
★★★★☆
This was a really heart-warming tale about an elderly woman and how she and her family is dealing with her constant episodes of forgetfulness, her fight about keeping life liveable all the while her family is insisting she should move on.
Wrestling Jesus
★☆☆☆☆
Here I don't ask where are the dangerous women, but rather where are the women in general.
"Girl" is only used as a slur and weakness is defined by way of being a pussy. The main character's mother is shamed for having sex and fun after her husband's death. The other female character is displayed as a trophy then tossed aside when the lesson is learned by the men.
And among the manly man things like fighting for a girl and cursing and being really tough there is absolutely nothing left to enjoy and nothing based on which I would recommend this story.
My Heart is Either Broken
★☆☆☆☆
Yet another story about a mentally ill woman through a man's eyes.This story could have been much better if the doubts and discoveries were made by the detectives instead of the husband, whose ignorance about her wife's condition, him interpreting it as "quirky" behaviour made it all the more worse.
Nora's Song
★★★☆☆
The style felt a bit out of place for the era, and the titular character's behaviour was somewhat cliché, but the Queen's and King's quarrel as the backdrop at least piqued my interest for Eleanor of Aquitaine.
The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens
★★★★☆
I remember reading it a while back, and how it shattered all my romanticised theories about this period in Westerosi history.
But after accepting that the first Targeryen civil war was much more gruesome than I previously expected I came to love and care for many of the characters only mentioned among these paragraphs.