I noticed that review about brutality against women when it was written and couldn’t see what the hell that guy was talking about. He/She has obviously never read anything where there really is some real brutality. I couldn’t see it…
If someone has a chip on their shoulder about something, they go looking for supporting evidence, and ignore everything that doesn’t support their supposition.
If they want to see brutality against women, they can point to the fact that Tanyth got injured so badly that she was out for days … and utterly ignore the fact that she was heroic and the phrase “you should see the other guy” would be rather more apt than usual.
I think it’s just one of those reviews to shake your head at, shrug, get on with your life and think no more of it. Mr. Paul got pretty solidly beaten up and traumatized. I’d say that over the course of Nate’s books the violence is doled out on roughly an equal opportunity basis.
I agree, not really seeing that guy having a point… the first example of someone getting kicked around in the stories was Pip after all…
I wouldn’t worry about it.
Sure you could have made different choices, but nowhere do I think you made the choice for the reasoning the guy seems to be implying.
Yes things are really really bad on the Tinker. But part of the point is that it was supposed to be the aberration, not in any way normal by the law, manners & mores of CP society.
Re: Dancing in the rain imagery
Sounds like another romance short story waiting to happen… Get crackin’. ^_^
I noticed that review about brutality against women when it was written and couldn’t see what the hell that guy was talking about. He/She has obviously never read anything where there really is some real brutality. I couldn’t see it…
If someone has a chip on their shoulder about something, they go looking for supporting evidence, and ignore everything that doesn’t support their supposition.
If they want to see brutality against women, they can point to the fact that Tanyth got injured so badly that she was out for days … and utterly ignore the fact that she was heroic and the phrase “you should see the other guy” would be rather more apt than usual.
I think it’s just one of those reviews to shake your head at, shrug, get on with your life and think no more of it. Mr. Paul got pretty solidly beaten up and traumatized. I’d say that over the course of Nate’s books the violence is doled out on roughly an equal opportunity basis.
I agree, not really seeing that guy having a point… the first example of someone getting kicked around in the stories was Pip after all…
I wouldn’t worry about it.
Sure you could have made different choices, but nowhere do I think you made the choice for the reasoning the guy seems to be implying.
Yes things are really really bad on the Tinker. But part of the point is that it was supposed to be the aberration, not in any way normal by the law, manners & mores of CP society.