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A review by mehak_ds
The Ruler by Elin Peer
1.0
I have never read a more garbage book. It's like taking old school sexism and justifying it. Someone who forcibly subjects anyone to any kind of sexual acts against their will, especially when they verbally say they do not want that happening, are committing ASSAULT and it is not something 'moral' or 'redeemable'. The hero constantly reassured the heroine that he won't 'rape' her. Well, he assaults her throughout and is ridiculously sexist. Also ... He likes the idea of teenage pregnancies??? Wtf is this book???? I have no freaking idea. This is just absolute INSANITY. It's disgusting.
I'm going to add specifics that made me DNF. I know the POINT is that the hero is supposed to be disgusting, sexist, and he changes - but it's just too much, and too similar to the kind of sexism that exists right now.
-a character calls another character r*tarded as an insult. It's never addressed other than as 'foul language'
- the hero masturbates in front of the heroine when she asks him not to. That's revealing yourself in front of someone, and it's assault
-after the heroine suggests a school for boys and girls as a way to merge differences between the countries, the hero fantasizes about TEEN PREGNANCIES?? quote: "Ahh, the thought of teen pregnancies and children being created naturally made my blood flow faster."
-the hero forcibly undresses her and gropes her in the shower after tying her to him?!?!?!
WHAT THE ABSOLUTE HECJ IS THIS BOOK?
Also he farts and laughs about it. That's gross and ew. And I don't need to read about his armpit hair. That's also ew.
I also disliked the stupidity of both arguing that the men of the motherland are as masculine as the men of the north, while also simultaneously describing the men of the north as 'inherently masculine' etc etc. You're undoing all of the work you did by expanding the definition of masculinity to include other types of masculinity, by ONCE AGAIN restricting the definition back to the ooga booga cave man male definition. This book is stupid.
I'm going to add specifics that made me DNF. I know the POINT is that the hero is supposed to be disgusting, sexist, and he changes - but it's just too much, and too similar to the kind of sexism that exists right now.
-a character calls another character r*tarded as an insult. It's never addressed other than as 'foul language'
- the hero masturbates in front of the heroine when she asks him not to. That's revealing yourself in front of someone, and it's assault
-after the heroine suggests a school for boys and girls as a way to merge differences between the countries, the hero fantasizes about TEEN PREGNANCIES?? quote: "Ahh, the thought of teen pregnancies and children being created naturally made my blood flow faster."
-the hero forcibly undresses her and gropes her in the shower after tying her to him?!?!?!
WHAT THE ABSOLUTE HECJ IS THIS BOOK?
Also he farts and laughs about it. That's gross and ew. And I don't need to read about his armpit hair. That's also ew.
I also disliked the stupidity of both arguing that the men of the motherland are as masculine as the men of the north, while also simultaneously describing the men of the north as 'inherently masculine' etc etc. You're undoing all of the work you did by expanding the definition of masculinity to include other types of masculinity, by ONCE AGAIN restricting the definition back to the ooga booga cave man male definition. This book is stupid.