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A review by whixie
The Gate Thief by Orson Scott Card
2.0
I haven't finished this book yet. I'm very near the end but something has just happened and I felt compelled to let you all know immediately. I enjoyed The Lost Gate, despite the women being a bit shit in it and the very teenage boy viewpoint. I was hanging in there with The Gate Thief, I really was. I am interested in the story, I liked the two stories in the The Lost Gate and wanted to see what happened. But every single woman in this story is a stereotype. Every single one. Lesley is a soft-hearted mum. Vivi (I have no idea what her name is, I'm listening to the audiobook, which is read very well by two actors) is bitchy and obsessed with things, women call other women bitches, every single one of them bar Lesley want to sleep with the teenage protagonist, his teenage friends talk like they've been written by a horny middle aged man and refer to their 'knockers' (very weird to hear a man say in an American accent in the audiobook, by they way) and then claim 'no one says 'knockers'' - very odd banter, not convincingly teenage at all but obviously this dude loves knockers, AND THEN
THIS JUST HAPPENED:
Danny's teenage kind of girlfriend (I'm being kind and trying not to spoil it for you but it doesn't really matter because apparently he is irresistible and all women care about is power, so he gets felt up by or kissed or pursued by every woman ever) who he has kissed only twice and who has just said she loves him:
"You're going off to war. When you told us what you'd spent all night doing I thought 'what if something had gone wrong? What if (SPOILER-FREE CHARACTER) had trapped him or tricked him and he simply never came back?' And instead of crying when I thought that, my hands just instinctively went to my belly (ME: SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK), my empty uterus (ME: NOPE). It's an instinct, Danny (ME: *white hot rage building coupled with disbelief). We want to be pregnant when our man goes off to war."
And I said "FUCK OFF" out loud, stopped playback and came to write this review. Who knows if I'll ever find out what happens? I'm too mad to listen right now. Thankfully, I borrowed this audiobook from the library and didn't pay a penny for it. Thank you for your time.
THIS JUST HAPPENED:
Danny's teenage kind of girlfriend (I'm being kind and trying not to spoil it for you but it doesn't really matter because apparently he is irresistible and all women care about is power, so he gets felt up by or kissed or pursued by every woman ever) who he has kissed only twice and who has just said she loves him:
"You're going off to war. When you told us what you'd spent all night doing I thought 'what if something had gone wrong? What if (SPOILER-FREE CHARACTER) had trapped him or tricked him and he simply never came back?' And instead of crying when I thought that, my hands just instinctively went to my belly (ME: SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK), my empty uterus (ME: NOPE). It's an instinct, Danny (ME: *white hot rage building coupled with disbelief). We want to be pregnant when our man goes off to war."
And I said "FUCK OFF" out loud, stopped playback and came to write this review. Who knows if I'll ever find out what happens? I'm too mad to listen right now. Thankfully, I borrowed this audiobook from the library and didn't pay a penny for it. Thank you for your time.