A review by swampmonster
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

Did not finish book. Stopped at 60%.
I really wanted to like this book - the setting is great! Scifi dragons, hell yeah! But the best way I can describe this book is that it just had a negative attitude. Was it misogynistic? Very. But the loathing present in the text towards women (or, at least, all other women, not the protagonist, she's different) wasn't even the end of it. I felt like the author just generally hated people. Most characters were written as shitheads, and all the characters agreed that each other character was a shithead, and they hated each other. The male love interest self-describes as a rapist, I mean, Jesus Christ! However, I was fully prepared to gut it out and finish this book, until time travel came into it. That was the last straw.
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