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A review by see_sadie_read
Black Dog Blues by Rhys Ford
4.0
I really quite enjoyed this. 8 hours and 50 minutes and I listed to it in one day. Seriously, I got all my laundry folded, cleaned my house, did a little knitting. It was great. I think what I liked most was Kai's sarcasm and the rough, fatherly affections of the stalkers. I appreciated how the elfin and human societies sat side by side, chafing at the edges. As well as how Kai was bisexual and the slow, slow burn of the romance.
I was annoyed with how women were represented. There aren't a lot of them and they're all cliched. The untouchable angel, the whore, the sexually aggressive cousin, the raving bitch, the manipulator and the mother (who was also disloyal). There wasn't a single non-problematic women in the book, when taken all together. Why does MM so often do this?
I also liked the narrations. I was a little iffy with the Irish lilt, given the appearance of the character on the cover. It didn't match what I would have imagined. But it worked, given his adoptive father and once I got used to it.
I was annoyed with how women were represented. There aren't a lot of them and they're all cliched. The untouchable angel, the whore, the sexually aggressive cousin, the raving bitch, the manipulator and the mother (who was also disloyal). There wasn't a single non-problematic women in the book, when taken all together. Why does MM so often do this?
I also liked the narrations. I was a little iffy with the Irish lilt, given the appearance of the character on the cover. It didn't match what I would have imagined. But it worked, given his adoptive father and once I got used to it.