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maratski 's review for:
The Way of Shadows
by Brent Weeks
Weeks might as well have put a "No Girls Allowed" sign on the front cover of this book. Disgustingly sexist. I was already irked by the sexism in the Lightbringer series and frankly I don't know why I had hope for a series he wrote years before that one.
"He was suddenly silenced as breasts went past. No, not just breasts. The breasts. They were perfect." REALLY? And this is a man in his early 20s (lorded throughout the book as the kindest and most well liked person ever) looking at a 15 year old. Yuck!! I get that the setting is medieval-esque and nobles marrying and such that young might be commonplace, but that felt so out of character considering the POV, and it was just a terrible introduction of her (although I dont think that Weeks was capable, at this point of his writing career, of describing a new female without mentioning her breasts at least twice).
It gets a 2 star instead of 1 because of 2 very memorable scenes that I did genuinely enjoy, but otherwise I don't feel much at all for the characters. Maybe I'll suck it up and finish this trilogy at some point but right now it's feeling like a big DNF.
"He was suddenly silenced as breasts went past. No, not just breasts. The breasts. They were perfect." REALLY? And this is a man in his early 20s (lorded throughout the book as the kindest and most well liked person ever) looking at a 15 year old. Yuck!! I get that the setting is medieval-esque and nobles marrying and such that young might be commonplace, but that felt so out of character considering the POV, and it was just a terrible introduction of her (although I dont think that Weeks was capable, at this point of his writing career, of describing a new female without mentioning her breasts at least twice).
It gets a 2 star instead of 1 because of 2 very memorable scenes that I did genuinely enjoy, but otherwise I don't feel much at all for the characters. Maybe I'll suck it up and finish this trilogy at some point but right now it's feeling like a big DNF.