Seventh Sigma, by Steven Gould

[mrissa]

Review copy provided by Tor

Comments

[sartorias]

Oh, sigh. I'd really been looking forward to this book.

Not now. Thanks for taking the bullet for the rest of us who are really, really sick of rape, and refrigerator women. Especially to boost the male protag's agency.

[mrissa]

I'm sorry that this is what I have to report, because it could have been a fun book. Sigh.

[auriaephiala]

Ditto the disappointment. I put a hold on it at the library, and I'll see how far I get in it.

[tanac]

Exactly what sartorias said. Avoiding this one, now.

[ellen_fremedon]

Rape for the purpose of demonstrating that Our Young Hero is a good guy; rape for the purpose of teaching him lessons. Sexual assault that upsets him more than it upsets, oh, I don't know, the actual victim.

Ah. Manpain. I will be giving this one a miss.

[txanne]

Oh, hell. Oh, Steve, WHY?

[apis_mellifera]

ARGH.

[reveritas]

This rape business is weird. Because in both my first two NaNo novels, when I needed something dramatic, I put in "'omg near-rape!" Not rape but ALMOST rape until something external happened and it changed the (female; victim) protagonist's life and world.

You know what those books did not ever get? Published. (I didn't try to get them published.) Good grief, that is obviously the zeitgeist or something. In my third NaNo I said, "OK, not doing THAT again!" (Instead, there was a birth.)

[mrissa]

I don't mean to condescend to your NaNo efforts, but yes, the, "What shall I do when I want something dramatic? I know! A crime that happens in real life and is often badly handled in fiction!" thing is not, shall we say, the highest level of professionalism the world of letters has ever seen.