macabrepuppy 's review for:

The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card
2.0

This is two novels at once: a pretty good fantasy with an interesting mythology and magic system, and a sexist mess that unironically slut-shames basically every young woman the main character encounters. The unironic homophobic "teasing" was expected, I went into it with my OSC filter switched on, but still wasn't prepared for at least three separate scenes throughout the book where the protagonist treats girls or women with contempt while negging them and obsessing over their cleavage.