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eldervampire83 's review for:
Heavenly Tyrant
by Xiran Jay Zhao
DID NOT FINISH: 41%
First of all, I don’t fault anyone for enjoying the book since the writing was engaging and you truly do feel like you’re inside Zetian’s head. But that was not a head that I was willing to spend 21 hours in. For my own sake, I can’t continue it.
As a trans person, I thought that it was incredibly poor taste to have the main character equate forced genital mutilation to the concept of what about a person’s body makes someone a certain gender, especially with the current political climate equating “mutilation” to the trans experience. That was not the time to create that kind of allegory.
To equate the two, even with a character as troubled as Zetian, was inappropriate.
As a trans person, I thought that it was incredibly poor taste to have the main character equate forced genital mutilation to the concept of what about a person’s body makes someone a certain gender, especially with the current political climate equating “mutilation” to the trans experience. That was not the time to create that kind of allegory.
To equate the two, even with a character as troubled as Zetian, was inappropriate.